less inclined to go out and find new things, more inclined to just turtle up in my own little lair and just ignore everyone else out there.
I'm really having this problem with fandom -- both with reading fic and with finding new source material to be excited about. I get so cranky and worked up about everything a story isn't giving me that I miss the good stuff. And then I sort of internalize that and turn the same eye on my own work, and end up deciding that it doesn't have any worth either.
Squeem has been encouraging me to post more lately by telling me that not sharing and not posting is the online equivalent of staying inside all day and never going out to experience anything or meet anyone.
I think that reading too many rants at a particularly impressionable time in my life is part of the reason why certain sorts of writing are so hard for me.
Totally. I've been seeing a ton of rants lately on realistic sex scenes, and how you're not Doing It Right if you're not including all the gory details, and it makes me needlessly critical about my own writing, when clearly whoever's writing these rants is looking for something different out of sex scenes than I am. And there's always this attitude in ranters that there's a Right way and a Wrong way to write, which I see now is ridiculous, but I got really caught up in that when I was younger and less experienced, and that attitude's had a lasting impact on me. I think sometimes ranting is just venting, and sometimes it's a way to feel superior to less experienced or just different writers.
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Date: 2011-12-07 02:32 am (UTC)I'm really having this problem with fandom -- both with reading fic and with finding new source material to be excited about. I get so cranky and worked up about everything a story isn't giving me that I miss the good stuff. And then I sort of internalize that and turn the same eye on my own work, and end up deciding that it doesn't have any worth either.
Squeem has been encouraging me to post more lately by telling me that not sharing and not posting is the online equivalent of staying inside all day and never going out to experience anything or meet anyone.
I think that reading too many rants at a particularly impressionable time in my life is part of the reason why certain sorts of writing are so hard for me.
Totally. I've been seeing a ton of rants lately on realistic sex scenes, and how you're not Doing It Right if you're not including all the gory details, and it makes me needlessly critical about my own writing, when clearly whoever's writing these rants is looking for something different out of sex scenes than I am. And there's always this attitude in ranters that there's a Right way and a Wrong way to write, which I see now is ridiculous, but I got really caught up in that when I was younger and less experienced, and that attitude's had a lasting impact on me. I think sometimes ranting is just venting, and sometimes it's a way to feel superior to less experienced or just different writers.