Nathan Bransford - The Forums

HAH! That is definitely the feeling it conjures up. I try not to obsess over the clunkers even as I'm typing them out, though. I just mark wavy lines under them on my print-out when I'm editing, which tells me that I need to figure out a better wording for the information I'm trying to convey there.

I feel both ways about every project I work on. However, to me, my projects are just as "practical" as ceramics, at least in the way that my kids will get to check out the work I spent all that time on, and show it to their kids too. I would love to have something creative to look at that my parents worked on.

Three years or so back I abandoned my first finished project because I decided I did not like it. Recently, while clearing some old Word docs, I found it again. After reading it I thought it was quite good, and am working on it again. At times I still think the story is drivel. But it can be fixed.

I feel fantastic about my writing or at least confident in my ability to bring it to the place it will need to be, until I pick up a novel from the bookstore and watch it walk all over my dreams. Curses, good fiction, curses.

Wow, this thread has made me feel much better about myself.

Now I can explain to my much-abused friends, "I'm not crazy, I'm a writer!"

My Hot & Cold varies on a day to day basis between "I AM THE GREATEST WRITER EVER!!" to "OMG A CHIMP WITH A TYPEWRITER COULD DO BETTER THAN THIS - EVEN IF IT WASN'T SHAKESPEARE, EVEN IF IT WASN"T COHERENT!"

So it's good to know I've got company. :)

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days and I've come to a somewhat disturbing theory. Perhaps this thing we all seem to have is some sort of genetic code. It's never been such a serious affliction that it has drawn scientists in to study it, but we might all just be one misplaced protein string from being cat hoarders or something.

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I'm glad to have company here.

On first draft, I'm all, 'This is freakin gold!'
On revision it's, 'What a pile of drivel.'

But then the two keep changing and I get awful moments of self-doubt where I want to chuck the MS.
I don't though, I'm still going at it now.