You will be disappointed.
As a writer, you will be disappointed.
You're work will will disappoint you, your talent will struggle to catch up with your ambitions.
The good news is--it's normal. Every author falls short of their goals, every piece of art will not shine from its start. Being a writer means accepting the frailty and inconsistencies of our own abilities. My story is about 3/5 of the way done. If you asked me how many portions of it I am pleased with I would have to tell you zero, or perhaps a negative number. It is filled with flaw upon flaw, unbelievable character after unbelievable event. It lacks a strong sense of character. Its plot is filled with holes, big black ones that seem to suck the rest of the story into itself. But despite all of this, I will finish it.
When I do, I will step back and look at the people and world I created and find a thousand things I hate, a hundred things I am disappointed with, ten things I'm missing, and one--one thing I absolutely love-- creating.
There will be plenty of things to fix, plenty of time to critique, and plenty of people to do both, but until then, you'll never reach any concrete understandings of your writing, or more importantly, yourself.
It is hard as an artist not to be critical of your own work. That is why is is important to have a second mind to evaluate with less biased. That's why you should let me read it haha. And no story will be perfect. In fact, flaws can make a story that much better because no story is perfect.
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