The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
Jun. 18th, 2008 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
michaeldthomasCritiques do not hurt me. I do not suck. Constructive criticism makes me a better writer.
My reader got back to me with some good points about my sekrit fanzine essay. They were valid points, but I still freaked out in the back of my head; self-doubt played a rumba beat on my lobes.
The first time I was supposed to do a reading of my work in my initial writers' group, I left the room and had somebody else do it. I shook for hours. I got better during my creative writing classes, but I still experience a lot of anxiety when somebody catalogs the flaws of my work.
I blame an educational system that basically trained me to take scan-tron tests. Give me a number two pencil, and I can rule the world. :)
My reader got back to me with some good points about my sekrit fanzine essay. They were valid points, but I still freaked out in the back of my head; self-doubt played a rumba beat on my lobes.
The first time I was supposed to do a reading of my work in my initial writers' group, I left the room and had somebody else do it. I shook for hours. I got better during my creative writing classes, but I still experience a lot of anxiety when somebody catalogs the flaws of my work.
I blame an educational system that basically trained me to take scan-tron tests. Give me a number two pencil, and I can rule the world. :)
