Any club that would have me as a member

[jethrien]

I've been going over the edits suggested by anthology editor. (Very little, really--mostly the discovery that when I transferred over to rtf format, all my em-dashes got messed up. *blush* Also a handful of very minor references to scenes that I cut to come in at the specified word limit.) Total crash of self-confidence, of course. I'm currently convinced that this story is total crap and they must not have gotten any submissions or they would never have chosen mine. Oy. Clearly the guy thought there was something here or he wouldn't be bothering to buy it. Still, logic is not preventing my urge to fling myself groveling at his feet and apologize for wasting his time with my embarrassingly substandard work.

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[jethrien.livejournal.com]

To clarify--it's not the edits that are causing the sudden self-doubt and loathing. The edits are fine, and kinda reassuring. It's rereading the story for the first time in months, and being convinced that surely it could have been done so much better. By someone other than me.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Get that feeling all the time. It's often balanced out by when I open a story I haven't looked at in months or years and can't fathom that I actually wrote something that engaging...