Wangst and weemo

[feuervogel]

I read a lot of writers' blogs. Or LJs, whatever. And I've started to feel like I'm inadequate and inept as a writer, because I wasn't an English major. I'm not Trained in things like Narrative Technique, Structure, and Symbolism, and I'm not well-read enough in classics, folklore, or myths to make use of Allusions.

I'm an impostor.

All I've got is some characters, a story idea, and 20-odd years of reading spec fic (and some Real Books™). No technique, no ideas for creative symbolism or structure or literary allusions.

I'm never gonna sell anything.

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[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

(To be honest, "trimming" is NEVER bad advice when directed at me. But that's another thing. ^_______^)

No, I gotcha. Poor Dead Author. :-D (LOL I remember a prof giving us an anecdote about "I grow old, I grow old, I will wear my trousers rolled" -- everyone was looking for a huge death metaphor or something when in fact Eliot stated that he was just stuck and needed a rhyme.)