How do you rate your own writing?

[BearlyAlive]

I've been told my editing skills are "almost godlike", so I'd give myself a 7.5/10 for those, but my writing skills... Let's just say they take a dive whenever I try to write something myself. So maybe a 4 or 5, maybe a 6.9 if I completely nail a chapter.

 

[ZaraVale]

I would like to think my work is a solid 8 but where it doesnt conform to genre I need the right audience to agree with me

 

[Humanistheart]

4.5

Same

 

[DireBadger]

I would probably use numbers instead of stars.

 

[Shorgoth]

I truly do not know; it could be a 2 or a 10, and I wouldn't know the difference because it acts so outside the norms that it becomes hard to quantify. I have a truly unique narrative style. Here are a few words from one of my readers on Royal Road. I think it says it all.

"This is a fiction that is hard to score. Much of it acts so far outside of regular story-writing conventions that I did not have really anything to compare it to. "

" To describe this story's style as "avant-garde" is the same as calling a bullet wound to the head a migraine. This story cares not for convention."

 

[Max02]

My writing is a 4/10, for me a 10/10 is only a Tolstoi or a Tolkien.

 

[DireBadger]

my writing is 678/702

 

[Alucard21]

Six, maybe seven if I spend a large amount of time working on my prose. I've read quite a bit of published works that were just horrid.

I still have nightmares about reading Spellmonger.

Empress of Fire

 

[Worthy39]

I'd give myself a 6, maybe a 7 in later chapters, but I guess as a whole it would average out at 6.5. Obviously, it's always a bit biased, you write things that excite you, things you like, so your opinion of your own work is going to naturally be a bit higher because of that fact.

 

[Wednesdayschild]

I don't rate my writing; I just write. It's for others to rate my writing.

 

[DireBadger]

I don't rate my writing; I just write. It's for others to rate my writing.

self-criticism is how humans grow and improve :)

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

I've been told my creativity is a 10 but my grammar and transitions are a 4.0

 

[Wednesdayschild]

self-criticism is how humans grow and improve :)

Interaction with others reveals the blind spots we don't see.

 

[MagdalenaForsberg]

7. But i tend to be optimistic.

 

[Enkiari]

Definetly a 6! Sometimes people like my stories, sometimes they don't. But they never really excel at anything.
They are just... Okay.
Readable. Not offensive.

 

[EchoHellion]

I'd say if I have to rate myself, I'd give it a six. I've been writing for a good three-ish years by now and I can see some improvement have been made. I don't want to be too egotistical to rate myself any higher as I know I still have plenty to learn.

 

[DireBadger]

Interaction with others reveals the blind spots we don't see.

True. That's why a good rifleman learns better shooting techniques AND practices hitting targets. Writers who do not do both get shallow and disconnected from good storytelling.

 

[Wednesdayschild]

That's why a good rifleman learns better shooting techniques AND practices hitting targets.

Having done both, I can't see the connection.