Critters Beware
Some people are born with a certain degree of self-confidence. Others, not so much. It may come as a surprise that I’m one of the latter. As such, my greatest challenge as someone who hopes one day to be a published author is having the courage to show people my writing.
I’ve been working on that lately. To start with, I’ve been venturing into the world of critiquing. For the uninitiated, that’s where you get people with no familial obligation to at least pretend to like your work to have a look at something you’ve written and point out its flaws. With short stories not being a particular strength of mine, it was an unnerving proposition.
I survived though, and feel better for it. Not only that, the story is better for it. By no means perfect of course, but greatly improved.
One thing which has become obvious to me is that attitude is everything. I want to improve my writing (and desensitise myself) so I got a great deal out of it. So much so, I’m planning to branch out and look at joining one of the local writer’s groups. But one step at a time.
For now, I have some more editing to do.