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[kairotique.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else feel like everything they're trying to say in their story has already been said before and they just happen to suck more at writing it than the people that made the points before them?
That's what I'm going through and I'm losing motivation. G'ah. It feels like there's no reason to write this because it's all just a worse version of something that's already been said...

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[lesser-gods.livejournal.com]

No, don't get discouraged...! See, I feel just the way you do - about most things I write, in fact. I write poems, usually, and that's bad enough in terms of "wait, hasn't someone said this already - and much better?!". This is the first time I've written prose of any length, and in addition to thinking/knowing that it sucks major butt, and has all been said before by other people, I now find myself running out of things to say. So I just sort of go on and say the same things over again, only slightly differently... This may have something to do with my lack of a plot of any kind.

Also, I ramble, because it's eleven-thirty p.m. I guess what I'm trying to tell you is, Please don't get discouraged and quit! Rejoice in the knowledge that your writing, like everyone else's, sucks in unique and precious ways that cannot be imitated! Go on, bravely, and fight The Wall! You can do it!

[nanowrimo-julie.livejournal.com]

I know it's corny to say, but keep at it!

I am not surewhat I will think of mine when I am done, but I am so glad I'm writing again! It's been months since I wrote something of any length, and I know that what I'm doing right now is good practice. Turn off your internal editor if you can, and just keep at it. This is good for you. Then, when you have something to say that you know has been said, you will have the skills and practice under your belt to say it, perhaps, in a way no one else has.

At least, you're not a quitter yet - and that's half the battle.

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

How's this? Each time you write it, you get better. So what if you think it's crap now... that's the point of Nano, right? Then, after this is done, you'll end up doing it again sooner or later, and it'll be better, and continue on this path over and over again until it's better that that stuff you read before and THEY have to catch up to you!

[aika-hanyou.livejournal.com]

*groans* I know the feeling...

[nano-curio.livejournal.com]

I'm not particularly losing motivation, I just feel like my story is boring, which is actually a separate issue of its own.

I feel like I've phrased things the same way so many times. I'm trying to revamp some things as I write them (not edit, but improve what I write the next day sort of thing), and I don't know how well that's going. Oh well. I'm not reading back in my story, so I can only work from what I think is going on.

I'm feeling rambly; so sorry. ;)

[harpoholic.livejournal.com]

Yes. However, at these moments I apply my (almost)-never-failing NaNo technique called "Blissful Denial". If that does not work, I use my even-more-rarely-failing writing method of Writing Anyway.

And hey, if it makes you feel better (and even if it does not), the first sentence of your post said exactly what I was feeling, except you phrased it better than I could. So, if you could phrase that thought well... maybe your writing doesn't suck as much as you think....