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Dec. 27th, 2011 07:30 am( Irish )
Oof. So, a couple of things of mine got rec'd and now I have all the grinning over what people said. I love it when people love what I write and feel it as true!. And I wrote a post on how I came to write like a speed freak, and that got me thinking. A lot of times I de-value my work because I do work so fast. I'm all "Oh god I wrote this story in an hour this is crap this person deserves better," but, of course, I do it anyway, but looking back at that post it makes me think some other things. Or it did late last night, at least.
My family, in addition to the store, also has a weaving business. I have three aunts who weave or, well, two now, since my bio-aunt who I came down here to... hang with, more than help, really, she does pretty well on her own, but on whose behest I moved down here. She has MS. So she doesn't weave anymore, she can't handle the physical labor anymore. But the two other aunts do, and the Beej-aunt does most of it. And she is good. And she's been doing this for a long time, and so she can probably weave in a third of the time or less, and do better, something I would take days to do. And do worse. And she can do that because she's been doing this for probably as long as I've been alive or longer. But do I consider her woven goods less because she does it fast? No, no I do not. So why don't I accord myself the same respect? Because I have practiced for years and years and so on, and because I learned how to do this and I have gotten some decent skills, and one of those is writing competent, coherent stories very very fast.
Hell, just look at all the feedback I've gotten pretty much solely on the strength of my writing? They don't know which ones I wrote in an hour or less and which ones I wrote over several days. They just know that they read something they like. And I shouldn't devalue their assessment of my work by saying "oh but I just wrote this in an hour" blah blah blah. This is what I do. This is my particular skill and talent, not mine alone, I'm not the only one, but it is a skill and talent that belongs to me. So, the brainweasels can shut the hell up, and I can be happy that I've made other people happy doing what I do best.
I am covered in guitar picks today. This means I kick ass.
Oof. So, a couple of things of mine got rec'd and now I have all the grinning over what people said. I love it when people love what I write and feel it as true!. And I wrote a post on how I came to write like a speed freak, and that got me thinking. A lot of times I de-value my work because I do work so fast. I'm all "Oh god I wrote this story in an hour this is crap this person deserves better," but, of course, I do it anyway, but looking back at that post it makes me think some other things. Or it did late last night, at least.
My family, in addition to the store, also has a weaving business. I have three aunts who weave or, well, two now, since my bio-aunt who I came down here to... hang with, more than help, really, she does pretty well on her own, but on whose behest I moved down here. She has MS. So she doesn't weave anymore, she can't handle the physical labor anymore. But the two other aunts do, and the Beej-aunt does most of it. And she is good. And she's been doing this for a long time, and so she can probably weave in a third of the time or less, and do better, something I would take days to do. And do worse. And she can do that because she's been doing this for probably as long as I've been alive or longer. But do I consider her woven goods less because she does it fast? No, no I do not. So why don't I accord myself the same respect? Because I have practiced for years and years and so on, and because I learned how to do this and I have gotten some decent skills, and one of those is writing competent, coherent stories very very fast.
Hell, just look at all the feedback I've gotten pretty much solely on the strength of my writing? They don't know which ones I wrote in an hour or less and which ones I wrote over several days. They just know that they read something they like. And I shouldn't devalue their assessment of my work by saying "oh but I just wrote this in an hour" blah blah blah. This is what I do. This is my particular skill and talent, not mine alone, I'm not the only one, but it is a skill and talent that belongs to me. So, the brainweasels can shut the hell up, and I can be happy that I've made other people happy doing what I do best.
I am covered in guitar picks today. This means I kick ass.
