Insecurities
Jun. 3rd, 2021 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitReading a lot of good stories is essential to being a writer. It helps develop language, broaden your horizons, and give depth to your ideas, It also tells you what people are already doing and what's been done before, which in turn permits you to respond to the zeitgeist a bit better.
But even when the story I'm presently working on was very, very shaped by a story in the anthology I've just finished reading, even when I'm excited about the concepts I'm exploring in this story and being surprised by some of the places it's taking me...
There's also a pervasive sense that I will never be able to write like that. Clearly my existing publications are a fluke and Neil Gaiman's man with a clipboard is going to come and tell me no one wants to read my writing and this isn't going to be my life.
Which is, I know, hardly atypical of writers. But still.
But even when the story I'm presently working on was very, very shaped by a story in the anthology I've just finished reading, even when I'm excited about the concepts I'm exploring in this story and being surprised by some of the places it's taking me...
There's also a pervasive sense that I will never be able to write like that. Clearly my existing publications are a fluke and Neil Gaiman's man with a clipboard is going to come and tell me no one wants to read my writing and this isn't going to be my life.
Which is, I know, hardly atypical of writers. But still.
