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Jan. 1st, 2005 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
person4I always find it really strange when an author that I know and really like comments on something I've written. That's happened twice in the past week, and both times it's just raised my spirits completely.
I think that a little bit of it is a self-esteem thing (although I'd still be excited if I was the most self-confident person in the world): 'Wow, if they like my writing then maybe I don't suck as much as that niggling voice in the back of my head says!' which is a good feeling. Next step would be getting rid of the niggling voice completely, but I wouldn't really want to do that. It keeps me from redeveloping the raging writer's ego I used to have, and I'd rather keep trying to write better because I lack confidence in my work then stagnate at the same level forever because I think that everything I write is perfect.
I think that a little bit of it is a self-esteem thing (although I'd still be excited if I was the most self-confident person in the world): 'Wow, if they like my writing then maybe I don't suck as much as that niggling voice in the back of my head says!' which is a good feeling. Next step would be getting rid of the niggling voice completely, but I wouldn't really want to do that. It keeps me from redeveloping the raging writer's ego I used to have, and I'd rather keep trying to write better because I lack confidence in my work then stagnate at the same level forever because I think that everything I write is perfect.