How happy are you with your own writing?

[Shinsou Vaan Osiris]

I always find myself looking at other people's work and being astonished at just how good some of it can be. Althanas has always had some excellent writers, but even some of what I would call the "mid-tier" stuff makes for great reading.

Yet, even though I know I am not a particularly bad writer, I look at my own stuff and it just feels sort of disjointed and all over the shop. I don't know whether or not this is just because I have a picture in my head of what I want to happen, and it doesn't quite translate like that onto the page, or whether it's because I'm a little rusty (I used to write here under a different name years ago but gave it up). Perhaps it's a bit of both.

So, how do you look at your own work? Are you happy with it? Do you feel like me or do you wake up in the morning and bask in the knowledge that you are a perfect being?

[hoytti]

Of course we are all a bit disappointed with our own writing. We are our worst critic. We know what we want with our writing (or anything else for that matter) and we think it doesn't reach par. It's just the way we are.

[Tobias Stalt]

Sub-par, do not like. Always go back and want to do things over.

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

I can't stand reading anything I write.

I'll go back and make an editing pass, and then never look at it again.

[Ashla]

I really can hate my writing. I'm a lot better than I used to be, and I've got a talent according to several people I know. I still can easily pick out places I didn't do that great in (dang it setting!) I'm getting better though. Last several projects I've worked on I've been proud of.

[Skie and Avery]

I'm always happy with it in the moment, and then disappointed when I go back and read it later. So I rarely go back and read it.

[Rayleigh]

I'm always happy with it in the moment, and then disappointed when I go back and read it later. So I rarely go back and read it.

I'm the opposite. It feels clunky as I write it, but when I go back days later, I can appreciate it a bit more. Overall, I don't mind my writing. It's not perfect, and I'm not overly proud of it most days, but I don't hate it either. I recognize that I'm learning, and that this is a journey for me.

[Alydia Ettermire]

If it's heavily edited, I'm happy with it (for a while). If I've vomited it out and not touched it, I'm horrified by it. Objectively, I'm pretty decent. Subjectively? Omfg, so bad.

[Otto]

Everything I write is golden. Duh.

[Light]

Same here. Sometimes I feel like it just flows out, then I re-read it the next day and I hate it. I want to re-write the whole thing! It's like constant battle in my head on whether it makes sense to the reader or not. Plus looking at the amazing people on this site and how they can write, can be discouraging sometimes. But like Rayleigh said, it is a journey!