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Apr. 25th, 2007 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wook77I know I said fic today and, err, it needs quite a bit of work so it's not happening. It's looking good for this weekend, however.
Now, on to my discussion question -
Lately, I've been writing things and being disappointed in them. They're well-received (at least according to the commenters) but I'm disappointed. I've found that the stories I'm most disappointed in are the ones that I had every intention of writing something else but time ran out so I had to tweak. Thus - when I see the story, I see what it could have been and not what it is and am disappointed.
On the other hand - I have one story that I was terribly disappointed in at the time of submittal and now that I've had some distance, I actually enjoyed reading it.
I've also seen a variety of people on my flist saying that they are finally getting to write what they want and not what they have to do.
So here it is - why do we post works that don't make us happy, that don't reflect our visions/skills? Why do we write stuff that simply isn't up to par (as far as we're concerned) and hope that it's good enough for the challenge/prompt/fest/giftee/person? What point do you say "this is good enough"? How do you determine "good enough"? Is it ever "good enough"? Do you eventually like the work?
Now, on to my discussion question -
Lately, I've been writing things and being disappointed in them. They're well-received (at least according to the commenters) but I'm disappointed. I've found that the stories I'm most disappointed in are the ones that I had every intention of writing something else but time ran out so I had to tweak. Thus - when I see the story, I see what it could have been and not what it is and am disappointed.
On the other hand - I have one story that I was terribly disappointed in at the time of submittal and now that I've had some distance, I actually enjoyed reading it.
I've also seen a variety of people on my flist saying that they are finally getting to write what they want and not what they have to do.
So here it is - why do we post works that don't make us happy, that don't reflect our visions/skills? Why do we write stuff that simply isn't up to par (as far as we're concerned) and hope that it's good enough for the challenge/prompt/fest/giftee/person? What point do you say "this is good enough"? How do you determine "good enough"? Is it ever "good enough"? Do you eventually like the work?
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Date: 2007-04-25 11:36 pm (UTC)another thing... good enough for me basically consists of how i feel when i read over it again, if that makes sense. if i want it to be angsty, i want to be able to feel that when i read it, even if i'm the one who wrote it. if i'm going for humor, i better giggle at the parts i want people to giggle at. if i write something and then when i read the finished product and it doesn't do what i want it to do, then i would consider it not good enough in my mind. i'm one of those people who writes something that i want to read, but i don't mind sharing with others. in the end, as long as i'm happy with it, then i think it's good enough (i hope all of that made sense!)