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[Jesus Christ Superstar]

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[Torvill and Dean]

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[Conan O'Brien]

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11. http://i.imgur.com/eBIFfE1.jpg
[linked for gore, video game]

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12. [SPOILERS for Resident Evil, Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption, The Walking Dead and Jonah Hex]

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13. [SPOILERS for Iron Man 3]

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14. [WARNING for suicide]

[Hetalia]

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Actually I never did much revision at all. I mean, obviously spelling and such, and taking out plotholes, and kicking out redundant sentences. Apart from that, though, I always sort of know what I want to write before writing it, and it end up on the page 80% done.

I don't know what it is, maybe I'm just not connecting to the characters, or the events. What sucks is, in essence it's something I really love doing, but sometimes I just feel like a stranger wrote it.

I've suffered from this in the past. Honestly, I'd say that this probably happens to a lot of people, probably at that point where you start really caring and have the experience to know what you like and don't like about reading generally and about your own writing.

I sometimes feel like my writing had sort of stagnated and become overly, idk, clinical? That is, everything seems technically correct, but it lacks some undefinable thing, some style or personality. The best thing for me when I get this way is to set it on the backburner for a time (depending on deadlines, of course), then come back to it when my brain has stopped nagging me about it.

If you've read your own work too much, it gets repetitive. The time and distance can help you see what it is the writing may be missing, when you can look at it with a fresh perspective. There may not even be anything wrong, which is always a welcome surprise. And if there is -- like maybe the verbs or adjectives you've chosen seem inappropriate to the character's mood or the atmosphere you want to create -- then you'll be able to spot it better. If it doesn't work the first time, or seems to only do so halfway, just rinse and repeat until you get it.

But it's also possible that, as others have pointed out, you're just being too hard on yourself. :)

SA

Also, I don't know if you do this already, but one of the best things any writer of any sort can do is to read the work out loud. I think this goes especially for fictional works; it lets you hear, in your own voice, the emotion/mood/atmosphere of the prose and the voice of the characters. If something seems off, you can highlight those parts and work on them, specifically, rather than feeling that the whole piece just seems "off".

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