---"Spiffy (Dustin Goeller)" <stinky@azstarnet.com> wrote:

How many people out there have had someone tell them they were

really good

at something? Something like writing? I have. I have many many times.

Same here, but I've never believed it.

Before I came to this list. I really thought I could write. I

honestly

thought I could do something well. But reading other people's works,

I must

say I really suck.

Personal opinion.  I disagree.

Why? I'll tell you why. Because I like to write. (I also like to

act, but

that's a another story.) Well, that's not true. I don't like to

write. I

like to create. I like to think. I like to make others laugh, to

cry, and

to throw-up.
I wish I could write. God, do I wish I could write. But, I can't.

And it's

beyond me why I even try. It seems to me as though all the really

good fics

are always dark or depressing. I can't write dark and depressing

fics. It's

impossible for me too. I can never really be serious, and this is a

REAL

big problem for me. I have failed several classes because I could

not write

a serious paper. Looking at some of the lab reports I have turned

in, it's

amazing I passed physics. If I can't write a serious lab report,

there is

no way I can write a serious story.

There is now law of physics that specifies that you must write a
darkfic and it be good, nor are all darkfics good fics.  The best
writer is a highly imaginative and adaptive author who can pen many
different types (whether he chooses to is a different story).  Anyone
who writes the samething over and over IMO, is good at one thing, bu
not expanding their talents.
BTW, one of my strongest talents--both and high school and in my real
job in the Navy--is not taking things seriously.  That in itself is a
gift, if used and honed properly. 

I dunno why I am posting this. I guess I just wanted to get it off my
chest. I  really do hate myself. I have always hated myself. Do you

people

have any idea to be the person whom you hate the most. (Well, some

of you

I'm sure do.) Every time I look in the mirror, I look at my

reflection with

resentment. I wish I could be anyone else. Anybody but me. Aughs. It

sucks.

NOT.  You have talent, use it.  Develop it and nuture it.  Just as a
person can turn a romantic comedy like R1/2 into a darkfic, who says
that you can't take Vampire Princess Miyu or some other dark concept
and turn it into one of the funniest things ever written?  It's all
how you look at it.
Besides, your writing can't be as bad as mine....

Take two happy pills (preferably the Kasumi-strength) ones then call
me in the morning.
^_~===
--Rob, Ashita, whatever
ashita@rocketmail.com, calicatcafe@geocities.com
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