Blegh

[dragonimp]

Writing has ... not been happening, the last several days. Work has been crazy busy with the summer reading game starting, but I was off Sunday and today and just .. haven't been able to write. I got a little done on Sunday, but nowhere near what I wanted. It's not that I don't know what's going to happen, the plot actually resolved itself fairly well Sunday, but when I sit down to write everything that tries to come out is flat and clunky. Like I've regressed back to high school or something.

I read over some of my fics and parts of them read like a tennis shoe in the dryer. And I think, why didn't anyone tell me this was awkward? Then I remember that most people are afraid to leave negative comments. And I start thinking that everyone's just being nice and is too polite (or scared) to tell me it sucks. And, oh yeah, did I mention I've kinda been in one of my "the internet fucking SUCKS" moods lately?

Really, though, I think I've been worn out from work and either allergies or a mild cold/flu (probably allergies), which hasn't been the best for my mood OR any sort of thinking.

I did get a tiny bit of painting done today, so it wasn't all wasted. I really should wash my watercolor palette, though, it's running out of clean places to mix colors. And now my wrist hurts.

Comments

[brinylon.livejournal.com]

Tbh, most people, if they don't like something just don't leave a comment at all. The last few weeks at least 2 authors on my flist have been having fits of insecurity and gloom over what to me looks like rather gently worded critisism so I'm not blaming people for keeping crit to themselves.

Another thing is, in a veritably sea of bad fic (my fandom is very quiet right now so I'm browing ffnet more than is healthy ;p), people are genuinely happy to read nice fic, even if it's not perfect.

*hugs* the internet is just going through a rough patch today ;p

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I'm as guilty as anyone of not leaving critical comments. The few times I have, I've either gotten no response from the author, leaving me to wonder if I've offended them, or it's gone into an unpleasant situation. I can think of only once where I got a positive response from the author. And I always try to be careful with my wording. Unfortunately, knowing this means I tend to interpret silence as negative, which isn't the best thing to do, and I end up putting less stock in the positive comments than I probably should.

But I've also just been grumpy lately so it's probably not the best time to analyze such things ^^;