do you like what you write?

[cacian]

so does everything write lives up expectations or does it sometimes makes you yourself?
There are times where I really like a piece and other times I feel I am not sure. Ups and downs but to be air most what I write I like.
I feel it is part of the writing experience not to like everything otherwise there is no progress.

[Delta40]

I do. I promise to stand by my work in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, till death do us part :lol:

[cacian]

I do. I promise to stand by my work in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, till death do us part :lol:

LOL and so shall you do. Amen.

[hillwalker]

I only write what I would like to read (and which also, hopefully, is rewarding for others to read).
If I felt I wasn't enjoying something I was writing I would stop and begin something else. Why continue working on a piece you despise?

H

[WolfLarsen]

I only write what I would like to read (and which also, hopefully, is rewarding for others to read).
If I felt I wasn't enjoying something I was writing I would stop and begin something else. Why continue working on a piece you despise?

H

To make money. You wanna make money in this business you write airport novels.

[cacian]

To make money. You wanna make money in this business you write airport novels.

What are airport novels? the ones that fly?

[hillwalker]

What are airport novels? the ones that fly?

Novels that tell you how to smuggle strange substances past airport security.

H

[YesNo]

To make money. You wanna make money in this business you write airport novels.

I'd love to write airport novels.

Regarding the original question, I think I like only about 10% of what I have written.

[Emil Miller]

What are airport novels? the ones that fly?

Airport novels are the kind one is likely to see at ( surprise surprise ) airports.
They are usually written by people who can't write but they provide the bread and butter income for publishers, and a thick wadge
of paper with a brightly coloured cover might just keep the average airline traveller awake without taxing their mental capacity too much.
If you have to wait until you get to the airport before looking for something to read, you may finish up reading Dan Brown.

[Volya]

Airport novels are the kind one is likely to see at ( surprise surprise ) airports.
They are usually written by people who can't write but they provide the bread and butter income for publishers, and a thick wadge
of paper with a brightly coloured cover might just keep the average airline traveller awake without taxing their mental capacity too much.
If you have to wait until you get to the airport before looking for something to read, you may finish up reading Dan Brown.

I think Dan Brown is decent, I still don't understand all the hate he gets.

[E.A Rumfield]

Novels that tell you how to smuggle strange substances past airport security.

H

I hear jars of re-sealed peanut butter do the trick.

[hillwalker]

I think Dan Brown is decent, I still don't understand all the hate he gets.

There are self-help groups for this condition if you check on-line.

90% of the reason writers don't like him is envy - he makes a lot of money writing less-than mediocre material.

and 10% is scorn - his plots are laughable.

H

[miyako73]

I have an aunt who is always excited to hear what I've written. She doesn't critique much. When I hear her say next, that means she doesn't want me to continue and she wants to hear another stuff. I've found out now what interests her--making the simple complex like writing about an apple that ends up in a murder. I think each writer or reader has his/her own likes and dislikes as far as literature is concerned, and that makes his reading and writing unique.

[cacian]

Novels that tell you how to smuggle strange substances past airport security.

H

Ha. Handy indeed lol

[cacian]

I'd love to write airport novels.

Regarding the original question, I think I like only about 10% of what I have written.

Only 10%? I am surprised. Any reasons why?

[YesNo]

I guess it is because I see things differently years afterwards. But that doesn't matter. Part of the 90% can usually be updated without too much trouble.

[Steven Hunley]

I guess it is because I see things differently years afterwards. But that doesn't matter. Part of the 90% can usually be updated without too much trouble.

We all, if we're making any progress, see the faults in our earlier work. It should be no occasion for loathing. Like part of falling when you're learning to ride a bicycle, you don't hate it, it was all part of the learning process. I think we learn more from mistakes than successes some times. I have a few short stories concerning customs and I'll tell you one:

A friend of mine was a smoker who smoked his own home-grown. His older brother convinced him to go to Mexico. They cooked up a plan to smoke a doobie on the big pyramid in Tenochtitlan, and soak in the sun and think Aztec-like thoughts. To get the smoke there they used a method recommended by a friend, an aerosol can of underarm deodorant, not aware they'd been busted some months before by customs, and the "secret" was out.

So that's exactly what they did. On the return to the U.S. they went through customs. Opening the bag the first thing the officer went for was the can. He flipped it over and twisted off the bottom with a spin to the right. (they all had reverse threads) There was nothing inside.

"Why are you traveling with an empty stash can?" he asked. "Come with me..."

They questioned him for an hour or so, but in the end, let him go, and him pleading," I used it to stash my money, I didn't want the chamber maid to find it in the hotel." They knew he was lying, with him and his long hair and beard and all, the sandal-wearing hippie.

So no matter the failures, they all provide a lesson, and looking back you can't really hate what you've done in the past. It was just a baby-step stumble into the future.

[cacian]

Hi Steven interesting story however I do not get the'' empty stash can''. Did they not put anything in it?

[jayat]

I regret not writing. I mean no airport novels. Something 'good'. I must live with that.

[jayat]

Novels that tell you how to smuggle strange substances past airport security.

H

That is not a matther for novels* but for penitentiaries and some high-school playgrounds.
*I went too far, who knows, if there were a market and no scruples (ha!), novels of those kind would mushroom.