>Get good feedback on critique threads >Get told I have

>>8347615
Get off 4chan and work hard.

But we both know you'll keep posting 'le feel man' here instead of making something of yourself

>>8347635
Okay so let's break this down.

>"work hard"

Hard? How do you mean hard? Just keep churning it out even if it feels like absolute, and sometimes unrelated, shit?

Honest question. I want to find a way through this and thinking alone hasn't helped.

>>8347664
>Just keep churning it out even if it feels like absolute, and sometimes unrelated, shit?
Yeah, nigga. Practice. If you don't feel like putting it up on public view, you can just stash it somewhere and review/revise it after you've forgotten about it. Clearing your head of the ideas and emotional states that influenced the writing of a piece helps with author's blindness to a surprising degree.

Just remember that if you ever make the big break, your descendants or the holders of your estate are most definitely going to publish all that horseshit you never meant for anyone to see. So plan accordingly.

>>8347615
link your fanfic

>>Its genre fiction
only /lit/ meme fucks think this is bad, and even then they dont know how fucking stupid and limited the term is.

Anything from Homer to Shakespeare can be called genre fiction if you really play by the rules of the term instead of being of snobby fuck.

>>8347721
http://pastebin.com/szZzds3d

Even this I feel is pretty flat, uninteresting and voiceless.

>>8347706
I suppose I should wait a little before I try to write lengthy stuff.

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>>8347752
>Star Wars fanfiction

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Almost everything good you write will start as a first draft thats mediocre at best and often garbage.

Its not self doubt, its a kind of narcissism that stops you from allowing yourself to write something bad and improve it later. Writing multiple drafts of the same piece until it is good is how you practice and improve.

Im not shitting on you I was in the same place. The trick is, if youre serious about writing get over yourself and allow yourself to be bad and practice. Every single craft requires trial and error to improve. If you are a basketball player natural talent means you are tall and have good endurance and coordination, but you still need to practice applying those things to the sport. If youre a naturally talented writer you have good sense of language, storytelling, and insight into connections human or otherwise, but theres still a huge gulf between having those senses and effectively piecing together words and sentences to make them a into a good piece of art.

>>8347783
Never thought of it this way.

I still think it'll take some time to crush my ego down to the right size but thank you, this helped put it into perspective.

>>8347774
>implying Star Wars hasn't been a franchise propped up on fan fiction for the last ten years

Still kek'd though.

>>8347615
Don't feel shitty, anon. I've just finished my first novel, and I get endless shit for it. It's like, how dare I write fantasy, that must mean I'm a retarded autist.

Then someone reads it, and yeah, it's a first draft, yeah it needs work, but that is what beta readers do. I get my feedback, and I polish it. Don't let self doubt and asshat feedback stop you from writing. If I had, I'd be looking at 7500 words, instead of a 100k novel, with sequels in the future.

Don't let your dreams be dreams, motherfucker.

If you keep getting good feedback why do you think it's shit? This has never made sense to me.

>>8348216
I think I just don't trust the feedback enough to believe it over my own self doubt.

>>8347964
>100k
Right now that seems impossible, but I'll keep the faith.

This thread has helped.