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Nihilism

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When have you realized your story is shit or even worse compared to famous authors?
 
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When I was a freshman, I wrote a story on storyfire and I thought I was writing a masterpiece that would take the entire site and shoot it into the stratosphere. Then a year later after I moved on to other things, I read it. I don't know what the actual fuck I was thinking back then.
 
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Gryphon said:
When I was a freshman, I wrote a story on storyfire and I thought I was writing a masterpiece that would take the entire site and shoot it into the stratosphere. Then a year later after I moved on to other things, I read it. I don't know what the actual fuck I was thinking back then.
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Ah yes, the bane of most authors... arrogance for their first story!
 
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When I do a full run-through of looking through my book
 
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What a silly notion.

Prego used to be the worst selling red sauce in America. They couldn't figure it out. They did study after study and adjusted the recipe over and over and no matter what they did, nobody liked it. So they brought in a professional statistician and asked for his help.

There is no perfect sauce, only perfect sauces.

He then did a study and found three "nodes" of flavor. Smooth and mild. Spicy, and extra chunky. Next year, the sales were through the roof.

The problem was they did studies with 1000's of people then picked the average. He how tried to please everyone, pleases no one. The average sauce fell in a flavor node that NOBODY liked.

The perfect sauce for you is not the one for me. It might be close, but it isn't the same. Or it might be radically different. To make the perfect red sauce for all 400 million Americans would require 400 million different recipes. But you could get 80% of them 'close enough' with just three different versions.

Does my writing suck against someone else? WHO'S ASKING? WHO IS THE WRITING FOR?

The very question is based on flawed assumptions.
The Question is USELESS.

There is no perfect story.
Only perfect stories.
 
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Compared to famous authors? Never. When have I realized that my novel is shit? Probably around the time when I understood that my story didn't go anywhere, no matter how many chapters I wrote, which is two months after I started writing, maybe three.
 
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To err is human, but since I'm a dinosaur my story sure is perfect
 
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TheEldritchGod said:
What a silly notion.

Prego used to be the worst selling red sauce in America. They couldn't figure it out. They did study after study and adjusted the recipe over and over and no matter what they did, nobody liked it. So they brought in a professional statistician and asked for his help.

There is no perfect sauce, only perfect sauces.

He then did a study and found three "nodes" of flavor. Smooth and mild. Spicy, and extra chunky. Next year, the sales were through the roof.

The problem was they did studies with 1000's of people then picked the average. He how tried to please everyone, pleases no one. The average sauce fell in a flavor node that NOBODY liked.

The perfect sauce for you is not the one for me. It might be close, but it isn't the same. Or it might be radically different. To make the perfect red sauce for all 400 million Americans would require 400 million different recipes. But you could get 80% of them 'close enough' with just three different versions.

Does my writing suck against someone else? WHO'S ASKING? WHO IS THE WRITING FOR?

The very question is based on flawed assumptions.
The Question is USELESS.

There is no perfect story.
Only perfect stories.
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Oyoyoy! America is not the only country, Sweden exists too! Anyway, I like the message you are spreading. I agree on it, it's smart. Still, it is all about striking a balance between niche and cliche, and if you go full on cliche you have sold your soul to the devil.
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When have you realized your story is shit or even worse compared to famous authors?
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I thought a bit about the books I have read, the things I have written, and the information about how to write on jerryjenkins.com. After that I realized... My stories are pretty decent, cause I read them a couple times and they were very entertaining for me personally, and my friends liked them too. But it was obvious I have a long way to go until I actually become a good author. I struggle sometimes with thinking about and figuring out how to organize the plot and make it follow the proper ways of writing good fiction, and I upload irregularly, and I have not internalized all of the tricks on Jerry Jenkins site. Hell, I haven't even gotten any reviews or comments yet. But it has been an entertaining journey so far. Building the newly learned techniques into your writing is pretty fun, cause it gets so much better. And better I will get! Slowly, but I'm getting there, not as good as Jerry Jenkins though. He is simply unreachable, cause he is the sun, and I am a small slimy worm drying up under his light.
 
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When someone gives me a five-star rating even though I'm asking for one-star ratings :blob_teary:
 
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When I'm about 100k words into the eleventy-billionth re-write and I still don't know what the actual fuck I want to say.
 
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