[ SECRET POST #3062 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3062 ⌋

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Comments

[fingalsanteater]

I love when I reread my fic and am like "Actually, this doesn't suck at all."

[(Anonymous)]

Do you ever get that thing where one day they seem great, and the next it seems horrible?

[fingalsanteater]

Yeah. Mostly when I'm still writing the fic, though. Like, with one I'm writing right now, the excitement of the idea has rubbed off and I'm trying to get the idea to page in a way that pleases me. Two days ago, what I'd written was acceptable, but the more I write, the less acceptable it becomes. But, I know it'll clean up the more I manipulate it, so I know this feeling of "this is horrible" will pass.

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DA

I do.

I usually get the "holy crap this sucks donkeyballs" feeling while I'm writing and shortly after, even when I've edited and beta'd fic to within an inch of its life.

The "hey, this wasn't that bad after all!" feeling comes on rereading, to the point where I feel deeply conflicted. Was I being unnecessarily harsh on my writing the first time around (probably) or am I less critical of it on rereading, i.e. being complacent? If I hated the fic at the time, how do I ever recognize whether anything I'm writing is any good during the process? How do I write anything new when I've clearly used up my creativity quotient on this fic?

And then I circle back to "everything sucks donkeyballs" again.