OOC: Ye Olde Writer's Ego
Oct. 27th, 2008 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
watch_is_meSo, I'm suffering from ye writer's insecurity (which I think is just a perpetual state of being, for ye writers), and just...am giving in to it, and asking questions.
- First, how's my driving? I've been enjoying playing my Doctor, though I'm still finding the characterization (go me, giving myself an AU, to make it harder), and am hoping that people I've played him with have found the experience satisfying/that I stay IC. The same goes for my fic writing. I really want to not go Mary Sue with characters and to develop interesting and thorough characterizations, that read smoothly and that are relevant to other readers. I know AUs, in particular, can off-put readers, and hope to develop something that can move past that.
- Also, is anybody reading? Yeah, self-indulgent question (and, hush,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stardustflying, I know you are XD), but I admire many of the writers in the unofficial community that seems to exist, and would like to think I'm...I dunno, contributing. Writing for oneself has merit, of course, but it's also lonely and lacks the hook and possibility for growth that writing for an audience does.
- Anything else at all? *shrugs* Anything, really. I like to talk.
Comments screened, yo.
- First, how's my driving? I've been enjoying playing my Doctor, though I'm still finding the characterization (go me, giving myself an AU, to make it harder), and am hoping that people I've played him with have found the experience satisfying/that I stay IC. The same goes for my fic writing. I really want to not go Mary Sue with characters and to develop interesting and thorough characterizations, that read smoothly and that are relevant to other readers. I know AUs, in particular, can off-put readers, and hope to develop something that can move past that.
- Also, is anybody reading? Yeah, self-indulgent question (and, hush,
stardustflying, I know you are XD), but I admire many of the writers in the unofficial community that seems to exist, and would like to think I'm...I dunno, contributing. Writing for oneself has merit, of course, but it's also lonely and lacks the hook and possibility for growth that writing for an audience does.- Anything else at all? *shrugs* Anything, really. I like to talk.
Comments screened, yo.
