Ever find that when you post something for critique . . .

. . . you start worrying and worrying about whether you've written it properly, until you find actual flaws that you didn't notice before you posted it? It feels like I've made more changes from this sort of thinking than I have from actually being critiqued.

Well, you do know your story best.

Once I post something for critique, I tend to start worrying about it SO MUCH, that I often become unable to look at it ever again. I gave a script for critique around a year and a half ago, and eventually decided to just rewrite and edit the whole thing from memory, because I just couldn't bring myself to take a look at the original anymore. *

edited 26th Nov '11 3:33:42 PM by fanty

I'm on pins and needles whenever I post something I wrote here, probably because it's not something I'm actually used to doing. I also recently got out of my stupid-rabid-fangirl phase, so that might have something to do with it, too.

edited 26th Nov '11 3:49:09 PM by CrystalGlacia

Not really. I tend to make last-minute revisions before revealing something to the public. The one thing that irks me about critics is that they critique inaccurately; they don't catch the spirit of what they've read and instead get lost in the trees from the forest. Nowadays I prefer readers to critics because readers— they're not loaded with all that critical baggage, and what they give me from their reading it is more than enough to know what's happened.

To be honest, I find that a little hypocritical.

One thing I find is that what critics notice and what I notice are either the same, or wildly different. The oddest things are what they notice, stuff you never even thought of before, just because it seemed so natural to you. It's very hard to tell what's the proper judgment for those situations.