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eimarra ([personal profile] eimarra) wrote2008-08-25 04:54 pm
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interesting advice on confidence in writing

Over on Men with Pens, Dave Navarro has written How to Feel Consistently Confident About Your Writing. Among other things, he recommends that you
Think back to every good thing someone has ever said about your writing. Write it down, as if it were a quote on the back of a book. Search your email, your personal letters, your blog comments - anywhere that might hold a nugget waiting to be captured. Write it all down (I recommend doing this by hand, because things you write - rather than type - stick in your mind more deeply).


Go, read the rest. Then help yourself feel better about your writing.

[identity profile] bonniers.livejournal.com 2008-08-26 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The trouble is, when I look at the good things people have said, I see either the negative flip side, or the thing they left out. All those people telling me how wonderful my characters are only call attention to the fact that I can't write a friggin' plot to save my life.

[identity profile] bonniers.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
All very true, but not much use unless I can figure out how to string them together in something that will pass for a plot in bad light.