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THAT part of the book
meh:
*passes 3aak a Dogfishhead 90minute to practice sucky communications skills on*
Kali:
It was funny. ;D My "runs away crying" thing is usually my jokey response to something I can't refute. Since I was so positive about the direction my novel was heading and even solicited beta readers in this board, only to have my own negativity derail me (that and a first-reader who couldn't be bothered to plow his way through the entire thing)... I sorta took that post to heart! I have no defense against it except *runs away crying* because I SHOULD finish it, I should get more than one disinterested opinion, and I should never let one bad opinion turn me against my own work.
And so I say...
SHUT UP! >.<
*runs away crying*
Starbeam:
If you ever have a day where you're thinking your stuff sucks or just isn't all that great, read something that you know is poorly written and still got published. Or procrastinate until you forget that you thought it sucked. I don't really recommend that one, though. It ends up being way too much procrastination. :-\
kyoryu:
Well, I'm not an author, I'm a programmer. But I can tell you that "that part" seems to exist in just about any large project. The part where you've worked on it long enough that you're used to the cool stuff, are just dealing with the flaws, and yet it hasn't come together yet.
It's a pain. The only thing you can do is slog through it.
arianne:
I thought the name for "that" part was writer's block?
From what I've heard, pretty much every writer has had a THAT part experience (why does this sound like we're all members of some exclusive THAT club?? :)) The general advice seems to be "write through it". I recently had a mini-THAT, and I found that just writing helped a lot. It doesn't really matter what you write, or how bad it sucks (if it even sucks at all--writers are infamous for their lack of objectivity towards their own work), because you can fix something that sucks. Always.
What you can't fix is something that isn't there. ;D
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