On poetic licence and stuff like that...
Sep. 13th, 2011 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI sent the first chapter of a planned story to someone who I know generally likes what I do to have a first opinion. They sent it back with a lot of what was clearly ment to be helpful suggestions. Only that they would have changed the whole direction of the plot, the characterizations, and the basic aim of the story.
In my reply, I thanked them for their effort and explained that while I appreciate the amount of work they put into making those suggestions, they are just not compatible with what I had in mind when I started. Unfortunately, I doubt that I'd be able to continue the story in the direction I've originally planned, either. It seems that I no longer believe in it.
Perhaps I get discouraged too easily. I've got this reaction earlier - people wanting to read a completely different story than the one I was actually writing - and it usually killed the story itself for years, if not permanently. I don't know why. It's not so that I'd start second-guessing my own concept; I'm not. And yet whenever such a reaction comes, especially when it comes from someone who seemed to like my writing, the story just dies on me.
Perhaps I should stop asking people's opinion altogether and just go on doing what feels right to me. OTOH, I'm not omniscient, and I need feedback to see if the things I had in mind actually gets over to the reader. I don't know. I'm just a bit depressed over the dead of another promising plotbunny - and one that was supposed to be the pilot of an entire series, at that. :(
In my reply, I thanked them for their effort and explained that while I appreciate the amount of work they put into making those suggestions, they are just not compatible with what I had in mind when I started. Unfortunately, I doubt that I'd be able to continue the story in the direction I've originally planned, either. It seems that I no longer believe in it.
Perhaps I get discouraged too easily. I've got this reaction earlier - people wanting to read a completely different story than the one I was actually writing - and it usually killed the story itself for years, if not permanently. I don't know why. It's not so that I'd start second-guessing my own concept; I'm not. And yet whenever such a reaction comes, especially when it comes from someone who seemed to like my writing, the story just dies on me.
Perhaps I should stop asking people's opinion altogether and just go on doing what feels right to me. OTOH, I'm not omniscient, and I need feedback to see if the things I had in mind actually gets over to the reader. I don't know. I'm just a bit depressed over the dead of another promising plotbunny - and one that was supposed to be the pilot of an entire series, at that. :(
