No. 3
if you're a person who also watches the deleted scenes on dvds as well as listening to the commentary; haven't you ever noticed how wrong those deleted bits would have been if they were in the finished film, and how also the makers will say how a thing was too long so they had to shorten it, or they took out a bit here or there, and always their choices are correct (to the best of our knowledge).
being a supposed writer, i'm so envious of that knowledge they possess - discernment - to know when something is not right. how can someone be as objective as to see there own work like that? i think it is the greatest gift a creative person can have; to know that!
what makes someone great at what they do is what they bin.
and just a memory i have - i went to a poetry group meeting once; just to make conversation i asked a fellow there which poets he liked. and he answered 'Oh, i don't read poetry, i write it'. i thought well i won't be coming here again. an arrogant man. surely to write it one has to love it and know it! - that is what i think.
LW
if you're a person who also watches the deleted scenes on dvds as well as listening to the commentary; haven't you ever noticed how wrong those deleted bits would have been if they were in the finished film, and how also the makers will say how a thing was too long so they had to shorten it, or they took out a bit here or there, and always their choices are correct (to the best of our knowledge).
being a supposed writer, i'm so envious of that knowledge they possess - discernment - to know when something is not right. how can someone be as objective as to see there own work like that? i think it is the greatest gift a creative person can have; to know that!
what makes someone great at what they do is what they bin.
and just a memory i have - i went to a poetry group meeting once; just to make conversation i asked a fellow there which poets he liked. and he answered 'Oh, i don't read poetry, i write it'. i thought well i won't be coming here again. an arrogant man. surely to write it one has to love it and know it! - that is what i think.
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The best thing to do with the first draft of a project is to put in a box and hide it until you forget about it, or at least forget most of it. That's the only thing you can really do so that when you come to read it then it's as fresh as possible. When you come to something fresh you can see what works and what doesn't. I wrote loads last year, but I've only just coming to do the rewrites. The first on my list: something I finished last January. By not reading it for months I've forgotten the beats of the story so there will be things I wouldn't have spotted when I had the original rhythm in my head.
Maybe I'm not making sense, but root through your old work and try and find something you wrote a few years ago. When you first read it you want to be able to think someone else wrote it. The narrative needs to take you so strongly you want to see how the story holds rather than the way it was written. If you can only focus on the technical then something is wrong with the story, go back an change that before working on the structure of the words
Best of luck with it though. Creativity is a source of happiness, embrace it.