Those are the thoughts that went through my brain. Why in the world, did I ever think that I could do this? Yes, they did encourage me but that all washed away and all I saw was the red pen on white paper. Once upon a time, when I was very insecure about my writing, I shared it with a trusted friend, and they gave me feedback. What people say about our writing should not define who we are. That should never be where our identity is.įirst and foremost, it should be our relation to Christ. First of all, we should desire to give glory to God through our books, our stories, and our words. Yes, we should aspire for the word good if it means that we want our stories to be approved by God. ![]() You can try but God has made it so you can use your broken words to create some beautiful. You can never get your book to be absolutely perfect. As broken humans, we are never going to produce something perfect. Oh, and guys, there’s another tricky word. So, before I give it to anyone (other than my sister, who is wonderful at telling me that my spelling is a little off) I want to make sure that everything is perfect. You know, the stress of reading it over again, and then finally giving it to a family, friend, or neighbor, and perhaps watching their face! I know what courage it takes to share all this with people. We try to string these messy thoughts into three hundred pages worth of prose. We put words very close to us on pages, talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve! You should get feedback from all sorts of ages and readers but we should always keep in mind: who is this book for? I’m a solid believer that the best books are able to be read by most but even the greats are not loved by everyone. I am not coming to you and saying feedback is bad. I gave my story to a person who wasn’t in the age range and it just wasn’t their thing, and let them determine if it was good or not. It’s not that it’s a bad story, that’s just not their taste. They probably would pass and you would be heartbroken. Let’s say you wrote a daring quest novel and asked someone else, who hates quest novels and would rather read solid nonfiction, if it was good. ![]() (however, improbable) Even writing might seem like a good way to spend my time but to another person, they would never dream of staring at a blank computer screen trying to come up with stories.įor example, look at all the genres in the world! Sci-fi, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, the list goes on and on. Ice cream might be good to me but to someone else, it could be disgusting. Has anyone noticed yet that writers keep on using the word good? I mean, how subjective is that word? If you just randomly look up what good is on the internet you get: to be desired or approved of. What is good writing? And how do you know if your writing matches up to that scale? ![]() A sentence might be fragmented, a character broken, or a description unclear.īut I want to tell you something, writer. It can cramp every part of my writing dreams and aspirations because I look at my broken, messy words and see no goodness in them. ![]() I know I’ve challenged myself with this question numerous times. You really want to know: would people read this? Does it make sense? Would people laugh and question why I did this? Is this sentence clear? Is the plot exciting? Is this character relatable? Is the whole thing somewhat decent? Suddenly, it’s not just a game or a little hobby that you spent some time working on. Some time or another the question pops up. It doesn’t matter how long you have been writing.
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