[ SECRET POST #2399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2399 ⌋

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Comments

[forgottenjester]

Then love your work. Shit, I love my work. As long as you're not saying you're perfect and no one should ever critique your work then, by all means, be happy about it.

I've always felt there's a difference between humility and saying that your work is crap. One, most of the time the fake humility is really a turn off, annoying, and hypocritical. Two, saying your stuff is crap is usually an incredible over exaggeration and therefore not a realistic estimation of your skills.

I generally feel like humility is more about knowing your limits realistically and being modest in the sense that you're not arrogant. You're not over the top. You're not a prick, essentially. (But hey, this is just me.)

[lyndis]

Great comment, you said it better than I could.

I think I'm a pretty good writer. I applied for a tutoring position at my campus's writing center and was hired after an interview. Granted, I'm 10 years older than most people that applied, but damn--I know I have skill.

At the same time, I know my weaknesses, I acknowledge them, and I'm never humble for the sake of being humble. My friend and I RP fanfic out (for fun) and when we were editing one we were like, "Dayam we're awesome fuck! Look at all these FUCKING SUPER AWESOME LINES WE CAME UP WITH!" It's okay to feel awesome and love your work.

If you think you're God's gift to fandom and everyone should bow down and worship you, well, that's pretty grating, but there's nothing worse than fake ass humility and I'm almost more afraid of that than I am being a braggart.

I totally told my classmates for a creative writing class that I was finally "blessing them" with my "amazing writing skills" before I read the only piece I wrote specifically to read to the class all semester. They laughed their asses off--at my comment and at my story, which made my day--but man I just felt that being cocky felt a lot more genuine than being freakishly humble and saying, "Well, I didn't try very hard... I know it's not good..."

"I couldn't sleep at five in the morning because this had to be written, and I don't care how shitty it is, you're going to hear it, and you're going to think it's awesome because I'M FUCKING AMAZING." That sounded better to me. Fake confidence sort of. Hahaha. I don't know.

I just hate super fake humility more than just about anything. Nothing I write is super crappy. I do turn out pieces that I feel are crap [compared to this other piece I wrote], but I feel that's different. ;)

[forgottenjester]

I don't know, you seem to have expressed your opinions quite well.

For me it's about extremes. Too egotistical and I'm going to assume you're* overcompensating. Too humble and I'm going to assume you're either fishing for praise or true to your word, your work isn't any good. Either way, you lack the ability to look at your piece without extreme bias. This is a problem because it holds a writer back, in both cases, from knowing how to strengthen their good points and fixing their bad. It prevents growth.

You** have found that balance as seen by your writing group and how they reacted to it. Others still need to figure out how to do that.

*In this paragraph I'm using you as in general you.

**Back to personal you. Yay!