Comments on: Anne Enright: The Thing You Have Written Is A Piece Of Shit http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2008/07/anne-enright-the-thing-you-have-written-is-a-piece-of-shit/ Thu, 27 May 2010 03:39:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: nancyrawlinson http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2008/07/anne-enright-the-thing-you-have-written-is-a-piece-of-shit/comment-page-1/#comment-11 nancyrawlinson Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:14:40 +0000 http://nancyrawlinson.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-11 That is an excellent question. It goes to the heart of what most writers struggle with: lack of confidence about their own work, and the seemingly impossible task of objectively judging its worth. The short answer, here, is that there are three things that I think a writer can do to deal with these issues: work on developing their own intuition about their work, work on developing their critical responses through an understanding of craft, and build in an external feedback loop. I think these processes are worthy of longer explication, so see the next blog post for a more worked-out reply. That is an excellent question. It goes to the heart of what most writers struggle with: lack of confidence about their own work, and the seemingly impossible task of objectively judging its worth. The short answer, here, is that there are three things that I think a writer can do to deal with these issues: work on developing their own intuition about their work, work on developing their critical responses through an understanding of craft, and build in an external feedback loop. I think these processes are worthy of longer explication, so see the next blog post for a more worked-out reply.

]]> By: anna rawlinson http://www.nancyrawlinson.com/2008/07/anne-enright-the-thing-you-have-written-is-a-piece-of-shit/comment-page-1/#comment-10 anna rawlinson Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:42:37 +0000 http://nancyrawlinson.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-10 I agree too - but how do you know/judge the quality of what you have written? How do you know if it really is a piece of shit? I agree too – but how do you know/judge the quality of what you have written? How do you know if it really is a piece of shit?

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