[ SECRET POST #2917 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2917 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

(not the OP) I can only speak from my own experience, but I credit it to "being a writer". Sometimes I write something and I'm really pleased with it, but in a different mood I think oh no, it's crap. It's the same when you read a book that's so poorly written you think geez, I could do better than that. Then you read a book that's amazing and think, wow, I'll never be as good as that.

It sounds conflicting, but it happens.

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DA

I think most creative people can relate to that conflict, honestly. There have been things I've written and loathed every word while I was writing, only to re-read it later on and think "Hey, this wasn't bad!" and vice versa -- I've re-read things I was proud of at the time that subsequently make me cringe. I've managed to depress myself by re-reading something I'd written and thought "I won't be able to capture anything as good as this again!"

I don't know how else you can gauge your own progress, tbh. You have to be objective and subjective towards your work at the same time because you need to be able to critically judge its strengths and weakensses at the same time.

[(Anonymous)]

Another writer/artist here who also feels the same way.

I think it happens when I know I can do a lot better in both idea and execution. It's excruciating to see that gap in achievement when I want so much more. At the same time, what I've done speaks to me in a way that rarely happens with other people's work, since I've combined all the things I love in a way that's personal to me. That perhaps makes my failings all the more painful.

So I get that confusing feeling that what I've done is both the worst and the best, simultaneously.

I don't think any creative person is the best judge of their own output. They're far too close.

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ayrt

That's a good way to put it. I think viewing my writing in its context is helpful because something that was good when I was 21 might not be good when I'm 30, or vice versa. Writers need that flexibility, and sometimes it means you've got a wide range of feelings about how good your work is. I don't know how people would do it any other way.