I have to agree with everything said in the above comments.
To put it in perspective of my own experience: Writing isn't my main thing. It's just a hobby, and something I often do as a way to work myself through the problems of life. What I submitted on my DevArt is mediocre at best, and not worth publishing. "Good enough" to put up on DevArt. But not enough to be put between mass-produced covers. Every time I look at them, I wonder to myself how they can be improved upon, how they could be changed to better effect the feeling I want to give. Of course, every time I go through these thoughts, I often end up drawing a blank, and out of frustration, put them away again until next time. Or, my singing, for which I've always had a passion. Even at the time that I hit a new personal best in my training, it wasn't nearly good enough. I had to do more to get where I wanted to be. More and more until one day I woke up and croaked like a frog. That was my equivalent of throwing the book off the bridge. Where your book would be submitted for editing/publication, I took a rest for a week. To this day, I listen to myself and think how horrible my singing is, despite other people telling me how good it sounds. Yeah, bring in my voice tutor and see what she says.
Point: No serious artist, no matter what field they're in, will ever think their work is "perfect". Anyone who demands that kind of attitude clearly doesn't understand the minds of the people they work with, and she needs to 1) get her head out of the clouds, and 2) think like a writer: in agreement with your above comment, she obviously didn't put any thought to the impact of her words.
And for the record? Lady of Mercy is perfect enough that it sat and continues to sit in pride of place on my bookshelf for more than ten years. Now I wish I could have seen the original copy you wrote.
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Date: 2009-07-21 05:56 am (UTC)To put it in perspective of my own experience:
Writing isn't my main thing. It's just a hobby, and something I often do as a way to work myself through the problems of life. What I submitted on my DevArt is mediocre at best, and not worth publishing. "Good enough" to put up on DevArt. But not enough to be put between mass-produced covers.
Every time I look at them, I wonder to myself how they can be improved upon, how they could be changed to better effect the feeling I want to give.
Of course, every time I go through these thoughts, I often end up drawing a blank, and out of frustration, put them away again until next time.
Or, my singing, for which I've always had a passion. Even at the time that I hit a new personal best in my training, it wasn't nearly good enough. I had to do more to get where I wanted to be. More and more until one day I woke up and croaked like a frog. That was my equivalent of throwing the book off the bridge. Where your book would be submitted for editing/publication, I took a rest for a week.
To this day, I listen to myself and think how horrible my singing is, despite other people telling me how good it sounds. Yeah, bring in my voice tutor and see what she says.
Point: No serious artist, no matter what field they're in, will ever think their work is "perfect".
Anyone who demands that kind of attitude clearly doesn't understand the minds of the people they work with, and she needs to
1) get her head out of the clouds, and
2) think like a writer: in agreement with your above comment, she obviously didn't put any thought to the impact of her words.
And for the record? Lady of Mercy is perfect enough that it sat and continues to sit in pride of place on my bookshelf for more than ten years. Now I wish I could have seen the original copy you wrote.