Don't you feel uncomfortable about Shared Work?

by T. O. Bührer
19th March 2012

I don't know about you, but I think I'll never feel secure about sharing my work (even here at W&A).

What's your opinion about sharing your projects in our community and also on internet?

Replies

I do sometimes feel a little uncomfortable sharing work, but that it mainly because of my being insecure about my writing. I think it's important to share work though, it gets you more use to people reading your stuff and can get you more confident

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Thomas
Kavanagh
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Thomas Kavanagh
05/01/2014

I understand, but it does have the advantage of a fresh set of eyes who may see holes that you may have missed because, in your mind, your character may be fully formed, you may have a good idea of time and place, and you have spent so bloody long thinking about the whole, or pieces of the whole, that you have moved on in the belief that because things are resolved in your mind, they are resolved on the page.

Suck it and see.

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Gary
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Gary Baker
07/10/2012

I am more terrified because i feel shy and my work is a part of me, and i have yet to build a thicker shell but it is needed though, especially if wanting to publish.

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Zaann
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Zaann Jacqueline
04/09/2012