A question to authors

[Sara Alva]

totally agree with both KingdombytheSea and J.Ross. But i actually purposefully leave things aside for a while and come back to them, then i see what i don't like anymore, re edit, re write what i need to, add more in... try to make it more emotionally gripping, and just plain MORE than it was the first time around. Just better, actually.

Hopefully it works.

 

I'm sure it does . . . I think that's how a lot of writers work. Funny thing w/ me is that I usually repeat the process several times . . . like I'll go back to something and say "my god, this sucks," rewrite it, and think "okay, now it works." But then I leave that same piece alone for another few weeks and when I next see it I'm like "holy crap, how did I think this was good?"

Well, I guess I'll never fall into the trap of thinking I'm perfect w/ no room to grow

[Michael Sheridan]

Are you moved emotionally by your own work when you read it later?Does it even bring tears to your eyes if the scene warrants it?

Yes; I don't see how a writer couldn't be, because they were his or her own emotions to begin with.

[Zolia Lily]

I'm sure it does . . . I think that's how a lot of writers work. Funny thing w/ me is that I usually repeat the process several times . . . like I'll go back to something and say "my god, this sucks," rewrite it, and think "okay, now it works." But then I leave that same piece alone for another few weeks and when I next see it I'm like "holy crap, how did I think this was good?"

Well, I guess I'll never fall into the trap of thinking I'm perfect w/ no room to grow

 

 

Totally totally totally!

it's one of the (many and varied) reasons i can't post work a chapter at a time as i write. I have to write. Re read. Edit. Re read. Re edit. Maybe add a chapter. Re edit. Re read... start to post the first parts.... re read the next parts, re edit... freak out and panic and re edit and then wish i hadn't started posting yet....

 

but i think always looking at it as having room to grow and room to learn still is a good thing

[Matthew Jacob]

theres this one story I'm working on, and during the first chapter the main character is a ball of emotions from the get.

He gets into this god-awful argument with his father and his mother and things fly out of their mouths (in reality what they say is what I have always been most afraid to hear from my own parents)

I dont know how I managed to wirte a scene with such emotional charge that I everytime Im reading I can feel

the angst and the anger, of my characters, and from what I have heard from the one or two friends who read it, its one of the better scenes in that story.