Just a few non-sequitors
Feb. 16th, 2004 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webbgirlI should really be cleaning right now. They're tenting our condo for termites starting tomorrow and I need to finish up. Oh well...Not that I procrastinate or anything.
I had a great time this weekend at the So Cal SG party at Joan's place. (Thanks again hun.) We laughed so hard that my sides were hurting. I'll never be able to think of champagne or turkey butts the same way again.
I've been trying to figure out why all of my writing seems to be hitting a brick wall lately, and why I haven't actively shopped any of it to an alpha or a beta. I've come up with two theories. One, that I'm just afraid that my stuff sucks so badly that there is no amount of alpha'ing or beta'ing that will help. Mmm...maybe, but I've got a pretty tough skin, so criticism usually just sparks me even more.
I think the second theory is more plausible. I've been reading too much bitching about what people do and don't like in fics and I'm letting it influence me in my writing. Afraid that if I add an original character, it will automatically be perceived as a Mary Sue. Afraid that Daniel will be too much of a wimp, or too manly. Afraid that something is going to cross someone's squick factor.
My current resolution is that I'm done with all that. If I have an OC and someone doesn't care for it, so what? It's my creation and all that counts is that I am happy with him/her (don't get me wrong, I'm not traveling into Mary Sue land here). As long as I stay true to my perception of the characters, that's all that really matters. I've read fics that some people rave about and I didn't particularly care for. I've also enjoyed fics that other people didn't get. To each her own.
Squick factors? I'm already doing slash, so there's a whole slough of squick factors that I've crossed right there. Might as well go the whole way.
I had a great time this weekend at the So Cal SG party at Joan's place. (Thanks again hun.) We laughed so hard that my sides were hurting. I'll never be able to think of champagne or turkey butts the same way again.
I've been trying to figure out why all of my writing seems to be hitting a brick wall lately, and why I haven't actively shopped any of it to an alpha or a beta. I've come up with two theories. One, that I'm just afraid that my stuff sucks so badly that there is no amount of alpha'ing or beta'ing that will help. Mmm...maybe, but I've got a pretty tough skin, so criticism usually just sparks me even more.
I think the second theory is more plausible. I've been reading too much bitching about what people do and don't like in fics and I'm letting it influence me in my writing. Afraid that if I add an original character, it will automatically be perceived as a Mary Sue. Afraid that Daniel will be too much of a wimp, or too manly. Afraid that something is going to cross someone's squick factor.
My current resolution is that I'm done with all that. If I have an OC and someone doesn't care for it, so what? It's my creation and all that counts is that I am happy with him/her (don't get me wrong, I'm not traveling into Mary Sue land here). As long as I stay true to my perception of the characters, that's all that really matters. I've read fics that some people rave about and I didn't particularly care for. I've also enjoyed fics that other people didn't get. To each her own.
Squick factors? I'm already doing slash, so there's a whole slough of squick factors that I've crossed right there. Might as well go the whole way.