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I've written loads of crap here...

and I don't worry about it much. I use Blogit as my "warm-up" before I sit down each day and write more seriously.  I try different voices here, different attitudes, even different personas.  It all helps me find that zone when I need to write what counts to me...that trance state that we go into when we write our fictions and the words seem to be falling at us from a place just beyond what we would contrive more consciously--does that make sense?  Real writers are compulsive about it and it doesn't matter much where and when and how...we just need to be writing all the time.  I even have a running narrative rambling about in my mind as I go about doing the quotidian, and I also dream so much of my fiction.  So it never stops, not even in sleep.

posted by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on October 3, 2004 at 11:16 PM | link to this | reply

I'm not so happy with my old written stuff......

posted by mariantonia on October 2, 2004 at 2:07 PM | link to this | reply

I just ran across a box of my stuff from High School! Ack! Talk about musty old writings. It was funny, and kind of sad. I have stories from back then that I'm still trying to tell right.

posted by Kay-Ren on October 1, 2004 at 9:39 PM | link to this | reply

Insightful post....

Sometimes I wonder if anything I write will ever really be complete. I rewrite that much.

posted by word.smith on October 1, 2004 at 6:57 PM | link to this | reply

this is an exellent post

it was a pleasure to read

posted by _Symphony_ on October 1, 2004 at 2:12 PM | link to this | reply

I absolutely will not send anything out unless I am thrilled with it

so a lot of stuff is sitting in folders on my desktop still. Sometimes even if I'm not happy, it will make someone else laugh aloud and long whcih is how I used to test run my humor cards - but if I don't laugh when I'm writing it - it ain't funny. I think I am too particular. Would probably be more solvent now if I just mailed the shit out!!!

posted by Hollee on October 1, 2004 at 12:23 PM | link to this | reply

This is very good. I never thought about that, though I don't think my

writing could be any better, as I write the best way I had learned. Wallaho Alam Bissawab.

posted by SouthAfricaQueen on October 1, 2004 at 9:17 AM | link to this | reply

Whim

Two good ideas there!  I have sometimes used parts of unpublished stuff to create something new, although it isn't something I do often because of the reason I gave - i.e., the enthusiasm isn't there.  More often I will use the original idea and expand on it, or perhaps approach it from another angle, sometimes as a serious piece rather than a humorous one. 

posted by Witty_Woman on October 1, 2004 at 9:16 AM | link to this | reply

I try not to delete or throw away work as it is a history of my progress, my state of mind, this part of my life.  I have also found I can incorporate something that didn't work originally into something else.  And, with my blogs, I often refer to them for links and research I may have done months ago. 

I receive numerous humor submissions for my website.  Most get rejected for the same reason you mentioned.  The story may be good, but the ending just lays there. 

Here is an idea for you.  Post a contest for your readers to come up with a new ending.  Could be interesting. 

posted by Whim on October 1, 2004 at 9:13 AM | link to this | reply