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Questions to ponder part 12
FrickingKaos:
--- Quote from: mare on August 05, 2014, 08:31:05 PM ---That stinks. So, if at least one person is reviewing and seems to care does it make a difference? Or do you need more than that to
Feel motivated?
That could also be a general question for everybody.
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If anyone is reading I am happy but I believe when I was updating regularly last I had some people tell me privately they weren't gonna read anymore for various reasons, ie the characters weren't what they liked or the storyline wasn't what they liked, which is fine...but that demotivated me too. I am just really hard on myself when it comes to work.
Carter:
With me even one sole person that keeps reviewing is better than none at all. I feel like sometimes my work sucks and is no good but that one person can keep me motivated. Southern Comfort has more reviews than half of my newer stories now lol. I feel like i am almost getting my mojo back or something rather lol
FrickingKaos:
Yeah I agree even if one person only reviews my stuff that is better than nothing. I just need to learn to take criticism and stuff like that. I always beat myself up over nothing at all. It's a self esteem thing and a work in progress.
Speaking of that, if you could Improve upon anything for yourself as a writer what would that be? What are you doing to try to help yourself with that issue. (not sure if that has been asked before or not)
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on August 05, 2014, 03:13:15 PM ---Since I have been on a big everyone must leave reviews for what they read tear lately, I'll ask this one
As Julie and carter both mentioned in their replies, reviews either have played a part in their possible updating and writing processes.
How much or little do reviews affect you and your writing? Do you find yourself excited to work on something after receiving a ton of feedback or not when it doesn't?
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Writing is definitely more fun when I get a lot of feedback, but that's not to say it isn't fun when I don't. I think it would bum me out if I didn't get ANY feedback, but as others have said, as long as at least one person read and enjoyed it, then I know it was worth my time. And then there are cases where all the feedback in the world isn't enough to motivate me (*cough*Guilty Roads*cough*), although begging does work on me most of the time. LOL
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on August 05, 2014, 08:26:34 PM ---That's a really good point you made about waiting until your stories are complete before you post them, Steph. I give you lots of credit for doing that. I don't think I would have the patience to sit on a story until it was done. I bet that would help with the overall feelings of doubt though.
Since I have pretty much limited myself to writing one fanfic a year, by the time I post it I Have at least five or more chapters done. Maybe as an experiment I'll try to wait until a story is complete before I post it. Try being the operative word there lol
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I agree - that takes a ton of willpower!! I would love to get to the point where I could do that, and I think I'm getting there... gradually. I used to post chapters as soon as I finished them. Then I started waiting a day so I could proofread them with fresh eyes. Then I started trying to stay a chapter or two ahead of myself.
Then I started writing Sick as My Secrets, and I wasn't sure how that was going to go, so I just worked on it in secret for awhile. I decided to include a prologue that would be a snippet of a later scene, to foreshadow what was to come, but instead of writing the prologue ahead of time, I decided to wait until I actually wrote that scene in order. Well, that didn't happen until Chapter 18, so I ended up finishing the first 18 chapters before I went back and added in the prologue and started posting the story. It was so hard to write that much of a story without showing anyone, but I think the story is better for it because it gave me so much more time to revise and edit, and the goal of getting to Chapter 18 so I could finally start posting it actually motivated me and made me write faster. I was so productive with that story in the beginning that I was able to keep updating through April, May, and June, months in which I actually didn't write anything because I was so busy, and I'm still 5 chapters ahead of myself. It's been awesome!
So maybe one day I will be able to write a whole story without posting any of it. We'll see. The only downside I can see to that is not getting any feedback along the way. Once I did start posting SAMS, I revised some later chapters to clarify some things based on the feedback I was getting, so not only did the feedback motivate me to keep writing, but it actually helped me make that writing better too. I think that's one of the best aspects of posting stories online vs. publishing them in a more traditional sense. It's nice to be able to get readers opinions on a work in progress.
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