A nightmare---

...probably one only another writer would relate to.

I dreamed I'd posted a story, something fairly short, and only when I started getting negative feedback did I realize that I'd made some hideous grammatical errors in it. I reread it, saw the glaring mistakes and was appalled. It wasn't just a typo, it was something horrendous, one of those "OMG, HOW could I have missed *that*?!" kind of things.

This woke me up at 3 AM. Does this mean I take my writing too seriously? (Nah--no such thing!) Is it the cumulative effect of being a member of grammar_whores, which scathingly roasts linguistic incompetence? I hope not; I rather enjoy contributing my own ripostes--although I encounter enough incoherent communiques in my daily life that I don't really need to go looking for them.

Or have I read too much house_mst, wherein they dissect bad!fic with sadistic glee? I've never mst'ed anyone's stories--usually, if it's that bad, I just leave--and I've seen a few stories trashed that weren't as bad as all that. *That* may be at the root of it, since I posted my fluffy little ficlet yesterday within an hour of writing it--I, who habitually tweak for days and weeks on end....

(It's fine. Really.)

A nightmare---

...probably one only another writer would relate to.

I dreamed I'd posted a story, something fairly short, and only when I started getting negative feedback did I realize that I'd made some hideous grammatical errors in it. I reread it, saw the glaring mistakes and was appalled. It wasn't just a typo, it was something horrendous, one of those "OMG, HOW could I have missed *that*?!" kind of things.

This woke me up at 3 AM. Does this mean I take my writing too seriously? (Nah--no such thing!) Is it the cumulative effect of being a member of grammar_whores, which scathingly roasts linguistic incompetence? I hope not; I rather enjoy contributing my own ripostes--although I encounter enough incoherent communiques in my daily life that I don't really need to go looking for them.

Or have I read too much house_mst, wherein they dissect bad!fic with sadistic glee? I've never mst'ed anyone's stories--usually, if it's that bad, I just leave--and I've seen a few stories trashed that weren't as bad as all that. *That* may be at the root of it, since I posted my fluffy little ficlet yesterday within an hour of writing it--I, who habitually tweak for days and weeks on end....

(It's fine. Really.)