I have discovered one of the rules of learning almost anything is that you have to get through (a lot of) suck in order to get to good. And how good you get is almost directly related to how much suck you have to wade through first. Haven't read any of your non-LJ writing, but I suspect it's pretty good.
One of the reasons fiction writing has never (yet) gotten off the ground for me is that I am (so far) unwilling to wade through the necessary amount of suckage.
On the other hand, I'm a very good doctor. And yes, there was suckage, indeed. One of the reasons more people don't die at the hands of new doctors is that there are old doctors there to hold their hands and help them through. (And now, of course, I *am* one of those 'old doctors'. Sigh. Waste of youth).
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One of the reasons fiction writing has never (yet) gotten off the ground for me is that I am (so far) unwilling to wade through the necessary amount of suckage.
On the other hand, I'm a very good doctor. And yes, there was suckage, indeed. One of the reasons more people don't die at the hands of new doctors is that there are old doctors there to hold their hands and help them through. (And now, of course, I *am* one of those 'old doctors'. Sigh. Waste of youth).