Basically, from *my* perspective, I call false dichotomy between #1 and #2.
I wasn't trying to set up a dichotomy. For me, they are two very separate things, but they are not mutually exclusive. As I noted, most people seem to do a bit of both when they write.
Faced with the choice between consigning *another* piece to the text files of unposted failures and getting something (anything) accomplished, I had to rejig the intent and ambition.
I never choose to scale down my ambition/intentions unless a deadline is involved. Which is why deadlines make me sick to my stomach, even for something that's supposed to be fun, like fic. What I do do is consign lots of stuff to the text files of languishment, but not of failure. I...have trouble admitting to failure. I never fail...I just never finish anything.
But that's the same thing, isn't it? Or, to answer both: Yes.
I went back and added the second question after the first, because I thought some people would be wary of equating their "best" with an attempt at a masterpiece. Some people think their best could never be a masterpiece--a view which, imo, is exceedingly wrong, but I wanted there to be a choice for everyone to pick from in that set of questions.
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I wasn't trying to set up a dichotomy. For me, they are two very separate things, but they are not mutually exclusive. As I noted, most people seem to do a bit of both when they write.
Faced with the choice between consigning *another* piece to the text files of unposted failures and getting something (anything) accomplished, I had to rejig the intent and ambition.
I never choose to scale down my ambition/intentions unless a deadline is involved. Which is why deadlines make me sick to my stomach, even for something that's supposed to be fun, like fic. What I do do is consign lots of stuff to the text files of languishment, but not of failure. I...have trouble admitting to failure. I never fail...I just never finish anything.
But that's the same thing, isn't it? Or, to answer both: Yes.
I went back and added the second question after the first, because I thought some people would be wary of equating their "best" with an attempt at a masterpiece. Some people think their best could never be a masterpiece--a view which, imo, is exceedingly wrong, but I wanted there to be a choice for everyone to pick from in that set of questions.