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posted by [identity profile] kelly-girl.livejournal.com at 02:45am on 20/02/2010
What I've wondered for awhile is if other writer's get kind of a 'writer's high?' once they finish a fic and then a slightly less kind of 'high' when they post?

It's like you're nervous but excited and then you get kind of a floaty feeling when you know you're done with a fic. Even before it's off to beta, you know you're done with the majority of it.


Or maybe that's just me?
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 05:37am on 20/02/2010
I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but when I am doing what I call "ice skating" writing, ie, when it is totally flowing along, I do get this feeling I could definitely describe as a "high". When I "finish" a fic I tend to get agitated because I'm not sure if it's really finished, or, more often, because I tend to get a lot of posting anxiety, like am I don't it right? (eg. right time of day, right places to cross post, right day of the week...) I do tend to get a second high when a fic hits whatever my "target" number of comments was. And that feeling is like how I feel when a plane that I am on hits the tarmac and starts taxiing safely. Which is like a relief without having had conscious worry.

I don't actually like that I have this target number of comments in my mind. But I cannot seem to stop myself from doing it.
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