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And when did you realise you had gotten good?

Long time. I don't even think I'm good yet. But I realized that people liked my writing when I started getting a lot more kudos on AO3.

Years of practice on my own, and then I started writing fanfiction just for fun. At first, very few people paid any attention but more people read and reviewed with every chapter and the reviews were lovely and complimentary. That helped me feel more confident about my abilities.

About 5 years.
It took that long of hit-or-miss to realize how to control the details and finer points and that the good idea itself wasn't enough without technique.

I hesitate to say I'm good because honestly that's inviting someone to get mad at me but...I'm at a point I like?

I'm not going to stop pushing myself more but I don't mind reading over my more recent stuff? And I guess other people seem to like it which makes me happy.

I'm good. Happy to improve but happy where I'm at.

I actually wrote a million word story over the course of several years. The difference in the beginning of the story and the end was startling. The beginning was definitely more stereotypical of teen fanfiction where the ending felt more realistic to the characters. It was a really great learning tool as I learned all sorts of things about pacing, character voices, unnecessary filler, how to finish, etc.

It's hard to judge one's own work but if I am good, I think I realized it when I wrote a pastiche of an 19th century author. I had several comments that I had managed to emulate their style to where they could see the author having written it.

Good? What's that?

It's more like, I took well over nine years to not suck completely. Unfortunately, I spent the next nine years losing what I had gained :P

Honestly I've always been pretty good at it, even in high school. I realized I was good at it when I bullshitted my way through college english, skipping most of the semester and still getting A's on my papers.

Me too. If anything, I wrote better as a teenager, when I'd occasionally get bursts of inspiration that resulted in stories that really were something special.

I dunno. Years, I guess. And I'm good, but i could be better. I know I tend to repeat myself re: phrases/moments/ideas, which isn't great (though it happens in published stuff, too).

I guess...five or six years into my writing, I felt like i could say 'yeah, i'm pretty good at this'.

At least ten years of almost daily writing and trying to find my own niche I was comfortable writing in? And I only realised I'd gotten "good" when I took creative writing classes in university and my lecturer told me I could actually get my work published in journals if I sent it off (I never did, but that was nice to hear).

I think that I have good writing, but I'm not nearly conceited enough to believe I'm a consistently good writer, and goodness it's taken a long time to get there. Weirdly, I credit business writing courses. It taught me to cut the crap, and then cut it a bit more for good measure.

honestly there are bits of my lame-ass high school writing from 20 years ago that I really like. there's always been something good in my writing. the whole thing may not be good but I could craft a good paragraph or two back then and I still can now.

I'm not there yet. I wrote consistently for a couple of years, but stopped when I got to college and my creative writing really suffered for it. I'm just barely getting back to a point where I feel like my writing isn't that bad, but I can definitely improve.

I wouldn't say I have anything I'm proud of until 2008-ish, when my RP prose took a turn from present tense (with whacky narration all over the place, and in-jokes that weren't funny commentary) to limited 3rd person past tense. Even then, I am still constantly absorbing new skill from anybody I write with. No matter what I write, if I come back to it a day later, I keep thinking 'Man, I should have put THIS phrase THIS way...', and such.

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