I'm late to the party, but was pointed in your direction by jimhines, and I just wanted to chime in on this, because I'm going through it with my latest story.
Of course, my problem is that the thing is finished, and submitted, and I'm damned if I'm going to go back to it and tweak it any more. And I'm still vacillating between thinking "This is the best thing I've ever written" and "Dude, I totally phoned this in; it's crap."
Fortunately, the Hubby, who is above all else objective and honest with me when it comes to my writing (if he doesn't like something, he says so--but he also tells me why, which is worth its weight in gold), thinks this particular story is the best thing I've ever done. So I at least have outside reassurance that it's not utter garbage, no matter what my Inner Bitch says.
I think a lot of times that we, as writers, are way too close to our own work and can't be objective about it until, perhaps, months after we finally let it fly and be free.
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Date: 2008-04-14 08:22 pm (UTC)Of course, my problem is that the thing is finished, and submitted, and I'm damned if I'm going to go back to it and tweak it any more. And I'm still vacillating between thinking "This is the best thing I've ever written" and "Dude, I totally phoned this in; it's crap."
Fortunately, the Hubby, who is above all else objective and honest with me when it comes to my writing (if he doesn't like something, he says so--but he also tells me why, which is worth its weight in gold), thinks this particular story is the best thing I've ever done. So I at least have outside reassurance that it's not utter garbage, no matter what my Inner Bitch says.
I think a lot of times that we, as writers, are way too close to our own work and can't be objective about it until, perhaps, months after we finally let it fly and be free.