Comments on: SO obvious

By: Amy K

Amy K — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:28:00 +0000

Everything’s much easier to see in my CPs’ stories and it ticks me off too. :cursing:

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:36:49 +0000

I dont know if the bird are finally pecking me on the head, but I find myself catching issues as I’m writing. I’ll stop and frown then backspace and redo. It’s a little slower than I used to be but I’m catching a lot more the first time through.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:57:08 +0000

That’s the writing life. Can’t see the forest through the “you know….”

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:20:29 +0000

I’m much better at figuring out everyone else’s work than my own. I’m also pretty good at finding my own issues (I think):roll: My best cps have been non-writers. I had a book that was nearly done when my reader buddy read it and told me she wanted to slap the heroine. And I knew exactly what she meant. So I don’t send it out until she has read it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:47:41 +0000

Kelly’s right – we’re too close to the subject. We’ve lived and breathed these characters’ lives and we think every part of their story is important to know.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:19:48 +0000

That’s why critiquing is so important! We find stuff in other people’s work that makes us realize we’re doing it in our own. And yes, it’s horribly frustrating, but often we’re far too close to and involved in our own story to be able to analyse it propoerly.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:23:45 +0000

Isn’t that maddening, being able to see it in other’s work and not your own?! I hate that. I guess its because we’re closer to our own. There’s so much about the story that we know and carry in our head that maybe we forget the others aren’t aware of it. I dunno…once I figure it out though it should make my writing a lot less painful!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:12:05 +0000

You are amazing at that. But really, I think that’s the purpose of critique partners and editors. When you write the stuff, you really can’t see it. It takes so much energy to write it, you can’t step back and see the flaws.

If I wait six weeks, I can see them, but not usually until then.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:35:15 +0000

I can read my stories over and over and over and still can’t see what’s so obviously wrong with it. And I also read my work and think over and over and over this is garbage.:shakehead:

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:05:19 +0000

I’m really good at picking up the bad stuff or the stuff I liked in books I read, but I can never find those same things in my work ever. I don’t get it either.