/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>17637863
Well he's alive, that I can tell you.

But can anyone here be considered truly alive?

>>15668683
>I've said before that I have trouble getting aroused reading my own writing. In the same vein, I've noticed that I can't react emotionally to my own writing either.
>He doesn't bawl his eyes off while writing depressing segments

I don't write smut so I can't comment on the first point. On the second, I'd say that it's not about the writing itself but the idea surrounding it and the parties involved as you imagine how it plays out; the actual writing part comes when you've already exposed yourself to it to build a tolerance. Shock value, for simplicity's sake.

It also heavily depends on what you write based on how it relates to you. It's a no-brainer that writing something that heavily relates to you or your wishes will hit more than writing something completely alien to you.

So too does self-criticism play a part in it. You won't see your own work in the same light as the work of someone else, even if they're the exact same. I don't really need to explain how this can influence what you write even though if someone else wrote it you'd view it in another light.

Picture a cook making a cake, then putting it on a table where another similar cake is. The first cook will view his own cake with a critical mind, trying to find flaws or areas that could use improvement since he'd wish to improve himself and his work; the other cake, however, he'd say 'eh that's a pretty good cake', because it's not his, and the earlier doesn't apply. He's not a critic, he's not going to ignore what good things it has to focus on the negatives since, even if he found them, it's not his job to improve them, it's the other cook's job.

It's partly why a great many artists of many mediums such as drawn art, writing, video-making, etc are self-critical despite others telling them they're great. Self-criticism and the wish to improve, focusing on the negatives to iron them out. The other type, those who just want pity points and wish to be showered in compliments, are a minority.

It's also why pros have editors. They end up with someone who can view the work without the near-crippling self-criticism through a reader's lens, yet still having enough authority to iron it out.

Glancing through what you wrote, you have bretty cul prose. I don't know if my prose is shit or the crippling self-criticism is affecting me when I compare mine to yours but, fuck, every time I write I have to rethink sentences because they feel dull and then resign mysel to leave them as they are since I don't know better.

>>15523405
>Losensis is pretty fun.

m8 I'm Losenis, you got another s in there somehow.

Also Druella story still progressing, just in case anyone thought I gave up on it.

>>15400792
>Jesus Christ, that's horrifying on its own right.

Still less than anonymoose's saga.