posted by [identity profile] memphis86.livejournal.com at 02:30am on 20/02/2010
I found I can't just pick one answer for the 2nd question because my overall feeling is really "It depends". It depends on whether or not I liked what I came out with, whether or not a day away from it has changed my opinion on it. Sometimes when I sleep on a fic my opinion will immediately switch from one side to another, or sometimes not at all. My beta comments I will usually be like 80% in agreement with and 20% ignoring and saying "artistic license" t myself about. It doesn't make me hate or love a fic more, just gives me an outside/objective insight into it which is always needing during the editing process. If I hate the fic but the beta loved it, it doesn't make me love it; and vice versa.

And random sort of thingy on the "I'm ashamed to tell people I don't like my creative output"-question: I dunno if "ashamed" is what I feel? And massively editing and re-phrasing this, I think in the past when I try to say to others that I think I missed the mark, I don't always get straight answers, and I worry people think I am fishing for compliments, when I'm rather fishing for concrit, if that makes sense?
Edited Date: 2010-02-20 03:18 am (UTC)
 
posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 03:34am on 20/02/2010
It depends is totally a valid response, and should have been an option.

w/r/t ashamed, I was thinking in terms of people not wanting anyone to know they had "low self-esteem". Like a woman I saw on a doc about Body Dimorphic Disorder, who was horrified at the thought of anyone finding out that she thought she was ugly. but what you say TOTALLY makes sense.

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