Way to feel inadequate

[azziria]

God, I wish I could write long, plotty stories... all these people signing up to write 40k epics, makes me feel a bit useless sometimes... :(

Comments

[fatorangekat.livejournal.com]

LOL- I wish I wrote the quicker, shorter, sharper ones like you write. Because it takes me so damn long to write my longer ones.

I meant to add, what you and powrhug write, to me, is stunning. You don't waste word count and your material is amazing. Seriously.

[azziria.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

Thank you. I struggle with the whole 'not quite good enough' thing in a lot of areas of my life, and although I'm far better about it than I used to be, it still rears its ugly head from time to time. A couple of very fine writers on my flist have posted or are about to post long pieces, and then this morning I read about how many people have signed up for the Big Bang thing, and I kind of had a wobble.

Of course sometimes you don't *want* to read long plotty things, you haven't time, you need a quick(ish) fix. So there is of course a place for everything.

[fatorangekat.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I envy your short sharp style, believe me. It was part of the reason I almost didn't post what I have because I feel yours and powrhug's and some other's are so outstanding.

So I totally understand 'not quite good enough'.

And with your shorter ones, you have all these awesome fics out there and someone like me has only a few and an epic that's taking me way too long to write because I don't have the time to put into it I wish I had.

I looked at the Big Bang too and knew I couldn't do it. So I'm in the same boat more or less. And I thought of signing up to do a musicvid for it and then decided against that too as I've been playing around with one for 6 weeks plus and it's nowhere near done.

Just understand you are one of the more incredibly writers in this fandom and I don't say that lightly. There is a lot of longer, badly written material out there. You are one of the few I look forward to seeing post a new one.