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[laurelin_kit]

ladyjaida made an entry about writing and the process and it being not fun on occasion.

It's really great to see my own feelings echoed in someone else about writing. It makes things so hard when you look around and think that everyone else has their problems, yes, of course, but that they're little tiny problems that they can get over quickly and still write massive amounts and make it seem like they were just skating along. That other people aren't wondering why they should bother, or thinking that the ideas you have could have been so much better if so-and-so wrote it. And if they could be better if so-and-so wrote it, does that mean that your style is only emulations of someone else's?

That's why I like reading other people's thoughts on writing. It helps for those moments where you're not quite sure if you should actually be doing this or if it's just you that's having these problems and those problems mean it's not for you. Writerly posts on my friends list always make me stop and read and see how their thoughts are similar to mine and which ones I don't understand. The ones that come to my mind immediately are the ones from ladyjaida, trollprincess and cleolinda.

Reading ladyjaida's writing posts makes me more confident in my wacky ideas, because if she can think of long, excessively British names and the like and wonder if people would wear waistcoats in the future, maybe it's okay for me to do so also. I mean, I like reading about things like that. It's good to know that at least one other person also enjoys things of that nature.

cleolinda's Novellas of the Night post is something that beckyincharge and I quote incessantly when we're writing. "Where are you now? How many pages do you have? Are you on a new chapter yet?" ... "I swear to God--work on your own thing, man."

And I'm always greatly impressed by trollprincess's ability to edit and rewrite all her drafts. I get tired of editing. Proofreading I can do until the end of time, but the cut-and-paste thing just throws me off. And rewriting entire passages drives me insane. I've never been good with drafting in any form. "But I just did this! Why do I have to do it again?"

It's encouraging, anyway.