Well, I didn't meant to downplay my own betas, I just suppose that since they're friends that sometimes I wonder if they're blowing smoke up my skirt ;) I mean, I want to think that they really like what I'm writing as much as they say, but on the other hand... there's just some things you might not say to friends. I don't have a Britpicker, but I suppose since I don't often leave the HP/Hogwarts-verse, that it doesn't come up as often as it would as your sample.
I love the brain dump, the rush of words, the feeling of having characters speaking in my head and describing what they're doing as it's happening (although fortunately they'll stop and repeat, of course *smirks*). i love pushing through the scene when I'm not sure where it's going, but kowing where it needs to end up and finding resulotions as I write and what little bumps in the road that crop up along the way.
Going back over it is sometimes fun and sometimes painful. Mostly I see things like... "Wow, adverb abuse much?" and I get a bit petty with the words, I'll obsess, overanalyze... this is where my obsessive compulsiveness tends to come out and I get very anxious about it. In and of itself I enjoy restructuring the paragraphs, eliminating the nonsense (and especially the occassionally amusing typo), but there's a definite point at which my analysis turns to serious self doubt and that's the part I dislike.
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Date: 2005-03-15 04:53 am (UTC)I love the brain dump, the rush of words, the feeling of having characters speaking in my head and describing what they're doing as it's happening (although fortunately they'll stop and repeat, of course *smirks*). i love pushing through the scene when I'm not sure where it's going, but kowing where it needs to end up and finding resulotions as I write and what little bumps in the road that crop up along the way.
Going back over it is sometimes fun and sometimes painful. Mostly I see things like... "Wow, adverb abuse much?" and I get a bit petty with the words, I'll obsess, overanalyze... this is where my obsessive compulsiveness tends to come out and I get very anxious about it. In and of itself I enjoy restructuring the paragraphs, eliminating the nonsense (and especially the occassionally amusing typo), but there's a definite point at which my analysis turns to serious self doubt and that's the part I dislike.