and ultimately were you happy with the story that you wrote? or just that you got a response?
I have to honestly say that I was. I liked the original story, but I was also happy to put the characters into new situations and ideas, making them seem fresh and alive again. I admit, the comments were nice and I did enjoy getting them and they did add to my over-all happiness with the changes. But I think I was more glad that I decided to make the changes and breathe some new life into characters I had loved, but had grown rather tired and bored with.
I can't say that I've evern really been unhappy with anything I've written or hateful of what I've created. I've sometimes been shocked at some of the things that I've written (particularly in the erotica realm, however, I admit to writting to a specific audience there and not my actual likes and/or dislikes...), but I've never really written something and said to myself that it sucked so horriblly that it was beyond redemption. At least not in the last 20 years...I give everything a chance, even if that means revisioning the heck out if it. :) Most times, with fiction, I write what I want and if people don't like it, well...What can I say? I tried.
And yes. I need to get back to writing myself. :P I promised a group I'd have a collected works out on the self-publish market (again, because it's already been distributed on-line previously) before summer and I've got to work on a piece that someone is going to illustrate for me. I've got alot of writing projects on the blocks...I just need to get to them. :P
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Date: 2006-05-04 03:29 pm (UTC)I have to honestly say that I was. I liked the original story, but I was also happy to put the characters into new situations and ideas, making them seem fresh and alive again. I admit, the comments were nice and I did enjoy getting them and they did add to my over-all happiness with the changes. But I think I was more glad that I decided to make the changes and breathe some new life into characters I had loved, but had grown rather tired and bored with.
I can't say that I've evern really been unhappy with anything I've written or hateful of what I've created. I've sometimes been shocked at some of the things that I've written (particularly in the erotica realm, however, I admit to writting to a specific audience there and not my actual likes and/or dislikes...), but I've never really written something and said to myself that it sucked so horriblly that it was beyond redemption. At least not in the last 20 years...I give everything a chance, even if that means revisioning the heck out if it. :) Most times, with fiction, I write what I want and if people don't like it, well...What can I say? I tried.
And yes. I need to get back to writing myself. :P I promised a group I'd have a collected works out on the self-publish market (again, because it's already been distributed on-line previously) before summer and I've got to work on a piece that someone is going to illustrate for me. I've got alot of writing projects on the blocks...I just need to get to them. :P