NaNoWriMo Note
Nov. 21st, 2002 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galdrinI don't want to drop out of this thing - and I probably won't. But ...
Everyone here had such nice things to say about what they'd read so far that the other day I pulled up what I'd written so far for Joyce to read and see what she thought of it.
She immediately started to critique it and when I said, "Don't critique it. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to get written. Critique comes later." she got all huffy and said she really didn't care for 'fantasy' that much, that this or this didn't make sense (it would have if she'd read further), and blah blah blah. That left me despondent, as she's my biggest fan.
So now I'm stranded in the doldrums, thinking about the story, but afraid to write anything further on it. How ridiculous is that? I never write for anyone else's pleasure ... but I so wanted her to like it - and she won't give it a chance.
Damn-it (that's two in one day's worth of posting) I gotta say screw it, get out of this funk, and just push forward.
Damn - damn - dam
Everyone here had such nice things to say about what they'd read so far that the other day I pulled up what I'd written so far for Joyce to read and see what she thought of it.
She immediately started to critique it and when I said, "Don't critique it. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to get written. Critique comes later." she got all huffy and said she really didn't care for 'fantasy' that much, that this or this didn't make sense (it would have if she'd read further), and blah blah blah. That left me despondent, as she's my biggest fan.
So now I'm stranded in the doldrums, thinking about the story, but afraid to write anything further on it. How ridiculous is that? I never write for anyone else's pleasure ... but I so wanted her to like it - and she won't give it a chance.
Damn-it (that's two in one day's worth of posting) I gotta say screw it, get out of this funk, and just push forward.
Damn - damn - dam
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Date: 2002-11-21 05:54 am (UTC)Is it possible that she's not happy with the time or energy you're spending on nanowrimo? I know I've sometimes been less than supportive if I've felt J is spending too much energy away from the relationship, that it's become unbalanced. Like right now with his 11-hour workdays. :( Even when we try not to let that sort of thing affect us, sometimes it does anyway...
Good luck with it all, in all the areas you could use some!
*hugs*