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[jack]

Do you like reading your own writing?

My LJ or newsgroup comments always seem a bit pointless. My diary LJ entries show fairly well what I was doing at the time. Emails I sent generally turn out to be nice enough, but I was never as polite as I thought I was in official emails, and in social chatty emails the contact was nice but the content not as urgent as we thought at the time :)

In essays I generally find I may have been interesting, but wasn't putting over a thought as coherently as I might, more writing a connected series of things.

But in fiction or witterings of any sort, I always find myself much more entertained than anyone else ever seemed, as if I were narcissisticly my own favourite author.

See this post about a dangerous stellar radiation source. No-one else commented at all, but *I* thought I brought it off very well :)

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I have chosen to cut out all melodrama, just because it never goes well, a one-line (often private) summary does just as well in retrospect. I don't always enjoy reading, though it's always interesting to know.

Anything recurring often is a good hint :)

Enjoying it is good, if you can manage it. And it's helped IMMENSELY to place dates, of course.

(I didn't really feel *very* narcissistic, but had to self-efface a little, or I'd just be posting "mwahaha" :))