cornerofmadness

first the request, anyone up for a quickie beta on a Spock/uhura NC-17 (2 pages)? thanks.

As for the writerly thoughts, yeah there are none. Didn't write much in the week in Boston and I can't focus here to do much.If I had been paying attention to the dates

springkink was due, I wouldn't have been signing up for oh so many. I'm barely home long enough to think let alone write. Haven't done a morning page in two weeks.

something I have been thinking of a lot lately, a criticism fired at me about 12 years ago and to this day still has a bit of power over me. 'you have not grown one iota as a writer since I've known you.'

This came after several back and forths in that particular writers group (which I quit soon after). this same person destroyed my confidence in my ability to describe and that is still effecting my writing to this day ( there were many complaints that I overdescribed and that Hemmingway should be everyone's model). Other criticisms were so wrong as to be laughable and I shall not relate them here.

Ironically I sold a story just a few weeks after I got that criticism. I've sold several more since. I know that it is not true and yet its roots are deep. It crops up like an unwanted weed from time to time.

This is the power of words. this is why we should be careful with the ones we use. Also, this is the power of a writers group. A good one can really help you. I've seen bad ones make promising writers put away their pens forever. Sadly I've never been in a group where there wasn't at least one person who gets off on cutting everyone down and otherwise acting superior. At least in the good groups, that type is run off fairly quickly.