This is so interesting to me, because the short bursts of ideas thing never happens to me.
I might be totally making crap up here, but I think one factor that might affect our differences there is the fact that I write a lot of drabbles. Drabbles are just not something I'd ever spend a long period of time on, and while obviously the technique is different for longer stuff, just doing them over and over may have, uh... honed my technique to "spit out" fics?
by the time I get around to getting it beta'ed and those final little revisions that would just make it that much better, I can no longer stand it.
Yep, that's just like me. I do the same with academic papers. It's bad.
I hope this doesn't sound...weird or awkward or anything, but I think you totally deserve more fb. You're such a wonderful writer.
Well, thank you. And I do know that I'm really small-time, which (while I do think is somewhat affected by writing skill) I think is a lot to do with the fact that a) I write mostly gen, whereas most people look for shippy and b) I really just don't put myself out there very much. I'm all shy and stuff. ;)
Totally random FYI: I don't know if it's just my screen, but are you noticing that on your new paid-account journal pages, icons aren't visible? (Except for yours right now in the reply screen...) I think there's a way to change that in custom settings, you know, if that was something you cared to change.
no subject
I might be totally making crap up here, but I think one factor that might affect our differences there is the fact that I write a lot of drabbles. Drabbles are just not something I'd ever spend a long period of time on, and while obviously the technique is different for longer stuff, just doing them over and over may have, uh... honed my technique to "spit out" fics?
by the time I get around to getting it beta'ed and those final little revisions that would just make it that much better, I can no longer stand it.
Yep, that's just like me. I do the same with academic papers. It's bad.
I hope this doesn't sound...weird or awkward or anything, but I think you totally deserve more fb. You're such a wonderful writer.
Well, thank you. And I do know that I'm really small-time, which (while I do think is somewhat affected by writing skill) I think is a lot to do with the fact that a) I write mostly gen, whereas most people look for shippy and b) I really just don't put myself out there very much. I'm all shy and stuff. ;)
Totally random FYI: I don't know if it's just my screen, but are you noticing that on your new paid-account journal pages, icons aren't visible? (Except for yours right now in the reply screen...) I think there's a way to change that in custom settings, you know, if that was something you cared to change.