Henry@home
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Maybe it's just me, but why is it that almost every person who has DM'ed an RPG has written a novel, published or not (myself included)? 
Michale, I have checked out your Dusk work, and wish you good success in the future. Sometimes distance is required for excelling at one's work.
I am not saying that this is true for Dusk, but there is that effect that I call "the Frankenstein Effect" on one's work, whether it be a model, written work, a large business project, or a lifeless corpse, that makes you beautify your work in your mind more than it objectively is. In fact, the Roman writer Quintilian wrote about this effect in A.D. 65 in his treatise on writing. His advice? Put it away for a while, and then come back to it with fresh eyes "as if seeing it for the first time." I am always amazed how many edits and revisions I come up with that I missed the first time around, or found a better way to do the second time around.
It seems as though you found some critiquing here, though not the kind you bargained for. Good luck on your endeavors, and I wish you the best.
Michale, I have checked out your Dusk work, and wish you good success in the future. Sometimes distance is required for excelling at one's work.
I am not saying that this is true for Dusk, but there is that effect that I call "the Frankenstein Effect" on one's work, whether it be a model, written work, a large business project, or a lifeless corpse, that makes you beautify your work in your mind more than it objectively is. In fact, the Roman writer Quintilian wrote about this effect in A.D. 65 in his treatise on writing. His advice? Put it away for a while, and then come back to it with fresh eyes "as if seeing it for the first time." I am always amazed how many edits and revisions I come up with that I missed the first time around, or found a better way to do the second time around.
It seems as though you found some critiquing here, though not the kind you bargained for.
Good luck on your endeavors, and I wish you the best.
What purpose does an attack like this serve? Morris feels hurt that he had a dozen promises to review his work and no one carried through. He started one thread about it. He's not flooding the boards, he's not flaming the world. Whether or not he expected too much from his work is secondary to the fact that he feels bad that all his efforts seem so pointless. A little bit of sympathy, not lecturing, is called for. If you aren't capable of offering it, or aren't willing to, don't post. Personal attacks like the one I quoted offer nothing constructive and reek of pointless venom, especially when they come from someone who purports to be a fellow author. Messageboards tend to bring the hidden cynic and grump we all carry to the surface. It would be nice if people could learn to stuff them back down, at least once in awhile. 
