Ah artistic types ...

[blamebrampton]

Very quick poll, NB, the first word of the first answer should be care, but lj won't let me fix it. *Damn you, LJ!*:[Poll #1507051]For my own part, after RL attacks of the last option, I entered fandom determined to work solely for myself, and do sometimes achieve that happy state, but more often it's accompanied by occasional wobblies. Having chatted to several friends on the topic, the wobblies seem a common surprise guest.

What about you lot? And how do you combat the wobblies if you're someone they hit?

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[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

While I write a story, between the paper and myself and the attacks of word blocks, it's easy to not think about things like fandom response and such. But when I receive the first beta, all splashed in red and with a heap of "that doesn't work"s and "change it"s, the wobbling starts rearing its head a little. But I am still in a working mode then, and it motivates me, gives me a kick that I need to make it better. That's why I work better with commenter-type betas, I need critique, not only a hundred changed commas. And then, poof, when I hit post, it's like I've hit the turn on the wobblies button! :D Checking my email obsessively, who? I see others don't fret too much over missing response for stories they personally like, but it's the exact opposite with me. If I feel a story is not good enough or wrote it as a flush of momentary emotion, and then it received single digit comments, I feel it was to be expected. But if I really invested myself in a story and like it, it's hard to see it unappreciated. Last time I participated in the hd_hols, winter of 07, I was in a very wobbly place writing-wise and in the end, the story I was very proud of received a not so stellar response - and these hols now are the first I've posted since. :) It was a block-y time, obviously I was not doing good enough - it made writing ever harder. So yeah, once it's reached the reader stage how a story does affects me a lot. I try to change it, but it's an ingrained habit, measuring up to others.

Lol, that comment got totally out of hand.

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

I want to steal your beta. :P