Stop trying so hard to sound like you know what you're doing, Robby. The things you wrote when you hated what you were writing were always your best work. Why be clever when you can be good?
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I don't know what I'm supposed to say. Who's defining "best" here? To me, this sounds far too much like you saying, "Stop writing stuff that you like because other people always prefer the stuff you write that you didn't like."
ReplyDeleteWrite to please yourself. Other people's opinions are too fickle, and what's the point of self-expression if you're just trying to be the voice everyone else wants to hear?
But that's not what you're saying at all, is it?
Close. I keep trying to capture some authorial voice that's too complicated or overwrought and it becomes a chore to write.
ReplyDeleteI don't necessarily know if it was your best work. It was good, and it reflected the ins and outs of self-expression, even if you hated the result. If something's a chore, maybe you hate it in a different way.
ReplyDeleteI think you're a good writer. And a clever writer. It's why I'm always happy when I see my feed updated by a post on like lippincott. I may not always get what you're going for, or get something when you weren't going for anything, but it's usually spectacular. Sometimes I wish I could write with the sort of authorial voices that you seem to do.
tl;dr version: so, don't worry about it and write what you want? :)
Haha sometimes I wish I were made of metal and were twelve feet tall. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
ReplyDeleteI wish wishes were horses.
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