NaNoWriMo Note

[galdrin]

I 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

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Please don't stop. If you don't continue, I'll never get to read the rest of it. That would be very disappointing. I want to know the rest of the story. Joyce probably just didn't understand that it was only a beginning, or she was tired or in a bad mood or something like that. If she really doesn't like fantasy, that could certainly be a big part of it too. If that's the case, then it might be best to finish it, or a big part of it, before having her read it again, so that when she reads it all the parts are there to make sense. Starting to read something that doesn't seem to make sense yet in a genre you don't like anyway can be kind of tough to continue.