"Oh shit, my writing is awful and this story is terrible and I can't stand to read a word of what I've written, and I will now go and hide under my bed so nobody finds out what a lousy writer I actually am"
No! Your story is not terrible! I know it's hard to convince yourself when you're in the stage of being so out of love with it, but it's really not true. :P
I'm in a post-RBB and general state "nothing you write will ever be good enough", "nothing you write will ever matter to anyone" phase and I suppose all of us have these phases and I think I've never finished and posted anything without going through a "this is the worst drivel" phase before doing so. There is always the stage where you edited so much that pretty much every word seems terrible to you.
Don't let it get you down! Sometimes it's necessary to push through and then let it go - stop editing or push through the edits, whatever your gut tells you is necessary.
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Date: 2017-06-26 05:53 pm (UTC)No! Your story is not terrible! I know it's hard to convince yourself when you're in the stage of being so out of love with it, but it's really not true. :P
I'm in a post-RBB and general state "nothing you write will ever be good enough", "nothing you write will ever matter to anyone" phase and I suppose all of us have these phases and I think I've never finished and posted anything without going through a "this is the worst drivel" phase before doing so. There is always the stage where you edited so much that pretty much every word seems terrible to you.
Don't let it get you down! Sometimes it's necessary to push through and then let it go - stop editing or push through the edits, whatever your gut tells you is necessary.