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Originally Posted by JAIF
Write.
It doesn't have to be something massively epic, nor something drastically original, or something enormous. But when you write something, post it up. Noone became a great writer by sitting on his ass and looking over and over the same piece of work, trying to make it flawless. No, you become great by having others view your work, hear their comments and follow their advice from their third-person perspective. Also, noone ever became a great writer without being a good reader first. Even if you think it's a massive waste of time to post your stories on MFG because of lack of comments, do it. Someone might read them, and even if he doesn't comment, he might find something in your work that intrigues him, and he wants to try it, so he might incorporate a specific element, whatever it may be, into his work to make it better. Then he will post his work on MFG, and you will read it, and another element that you might have lacked may come into your attention, and you will use it to improve the quality of your own writing etc. Writing isn't nearly as much of a solitary work as it sounds.
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*has an epiphany after reading the bold*
You know what? You're absolutely right, I refuse to keep on sitting on my ass and continue to plan my writing, or endlessly trying to improve / proofread it. I no longer care about trying to be perfect any more, and will welcome criticism more than the random 'good job, keep it up'. Actually, I don't care if I get comments at all, I'll just use the posts to store my work on the net, lol.
If all goes well and I don't chicken out, I'll be commenting on some fictions to start things off. Then hopefully, I'll go redo my old DBZ fiction for the last time, and finally keep on posting it to the very end on a weekly basis. This has also indirectly made me want to do the same for the Battle/RPG sections, even though they're doing okay. I know I could post and contribute more than I have as of late.
Thanks JAIF, rep for you XD.