Rob Barba/Ashita wrote:

---Dustin Goeller <stinky@azstarnet.com> wrote:

I HATE FANFIC WRITING!!! Nothing I write comes

out the way I want it too! I

can NEVER capture the mood or feeling I want

the fic to have. It never

looks like anything I had originally intended!

The best cure for this syndrome is to post it.  
I'm not kidding.  I write until I say, "Oh god 
this sucks!", or "This is boring." then I post it.  
It's a measure of my self-hatred that all my 
segments are so short.
Don't delete anything until you've tried it out
on a test audience, either the list or some 
pre-readers.  If they give you feedback you may
actually be able to figure out what's wrong with
it and actually fix it.  

True writing comes from the heart.  You cannot
simply BS your way through something.  You must
search deep down into your soul to find what it
is that is there, then channel that into your
works.

(Scritch).  My most successful work so far has been
For Every Action.  It is not coming deep from my 
soul.  I'm just torturing Akane a little, and 
complicating her life for my deific amusement.  
For the most part, the only thing I think when
I write it is, "What comes next?"  If I spent
all my time searching the depths of my soul,
not only would I get little written, but everything
I wrote would come out sounding like "Bie Liao",
only whinier.  Besides, if you use that standard
everything will seem like crap just because your
reach is exceeding your grasp. 

Life is the ultimate power source for writing.
Unless you've done the research and have a knack
for words, nothing can compare to your personal
translation of a lover's kiss, or the stars at
night, or getting punched out.

Oh geez.  Talk about a way to kill my muse.  If I 
only wrote about personal experience, the only
person I could write is Gosunkugi.  YES!  150kb
series!  The Adventures of Hikaru Gosunkugi.  
Die muse!  DIE!

Find what you know, what you feel, then pour it
into your keyboard...or perhaps, maybe a pen
(then type it later).  What you will find is
your soul in 12-point Courier New font...and the
makings of a classic story.

BAH!  His problem is he won't settle for less than
a classic story!  If he learns how to write, his 
soul will come out anyway.