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I'm not sure where this should go, so I decided to post it here. I don't know why, but in recent weeks, I have felt very bad about my writing in general. I went from feeling good about most of my memoir and like I only had some tweeking left to do, to feeling deeply dissatisfied with the quality of my writing. I suddenly feel that my writing is uninteresting and that it might even be an embarrassment.
I'm not sure what happened.
I've tried setting my work aside and coming back to it, but I've read the text so many times that I'm not able to read it any more with enthusiasm.
My husband and a few beta readers have encouraged me to move forward with it. I feel like putting it away and letting it rot in a drawer. LOL.
I don't know if this is because my memoir struck a painful nerve, whether I'm simply feeling a bit depressed, or perhaps ... worst of all ... that my personal criticisms of my work are valid.
Has anyone else ever been through something like this? Am I alone in feeling this way? How did you move past it?
Kris
I'm not sure what happened.
I've tried setting my work aside and coming back to it, but I've read the text so many times that I'm not able to read it any more with enthusiasm.
My husband and a few beta readers have encouraged me to move forward with it. I feel like putting it away and letting it rot in a drawer. LOL.
I don't know if this is because my memoir struck a painful nerve, whether I'm simply feeling a bit depressed, or perhaps ... worst of all ... that my personal criticisms of my work are valid.
Has anyone else ever been through something like this? Am I alone in feeling this way? How did you move past it?
Kris