Is it wrong that I derive pleasure from reading my own writing, as well as other people's? Sometimes when I'm writing something, I don't even realise what I've written, so it's nice to look back, even after the editing stage and see exactly what I've done and I may even learn from it. Sometimes I'll read something back and think "huh, that was kinda clever!", narcissistic as that may seem, but as I said, it's also a good opportunity to learn from it.
Good question! I think it's really important that you enjoy your own writing. It's especially nice if something catches your attention because you know it's probably doing the same thing for your readers.
LOL. If I could do that... I'd be a GOD... I'm a freaking teenage girl do you really think I feel good about what I write? Yeah.. NO.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
-Robert Frost
LOL. If I could do that... I'd be a GOD... I'm a freaking teenage girl do you really think I feel good about what I write? Yeah.. NO.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
-Robert Frost
Absoloutly especially if it was a good piece of writing that is special to me, of course I enjoy reading it! I don't enjoy re-reading my not so great written work, but then when I start reading it again, I get that red pen out and start re-editing it LOL
This is a good question.
I certainly do enjoy reading my own work. Especially after some time has passed.
The more I cringe at the "not so good parts", the more I eventually learn.
My daughter say's when she has wrote something really good, she reads it again and thinks wow did I really write that, it's really good!
yes I read my stories and I also watch the comments that I receive good/bad or low votes.... I feel they help me to grow and become that much better and better
Yes, but it's sort of embarrassing when I get emotional at the sad parts, or start laughing when I hit the humorous ones.
I have always enjoyed reading my published work. Back when I was a journalist, opening the newspaper was like Christmas morning every day for me. Whether I had scored an Easy Bake oven (front page, lead story with a byline) or just socks (two paragraphs on page 15), it was a thrill to see my writing in print. I still feel the same way, even though what I write about and the mode of delivery have changed significantly.
I kind of do. My teacher used the term 'smokehouse the story' (to leave it alone for a few months) so that when i read it again later it's almost as if I was reading it for the first time. Does that make sense?
I sometimes do, especially if I have left it for a while (like a year or two). Often, though, when I read my own work, I see things I should have said differently.
"Any book not worth reading twice was not worth reading the first time." Oscar Wilde
Only the poetry...the fiction is hack work.
In my case, it honestly depends. I really like a lot of it, but there's a lot of pieces that make me want to throw up.
I enjoy reading my own work while it's still being formed and shaped...but once I have it writen as well as I'm able...I loose interist in it. I'm the same way with my art...lots of half finished pieces hanging on the wall, and pictures that I'm looking at to draw from....but finished work must leave my sight....it's horibly flawed and insults me everytime I look at it.
