SCP Announcements 23: much the way that bricks don't
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SCP Announcements 23: much the way that bricks don't
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New SCP
SCP-2973 - The Lizard Man
Dammit, completely forgot. Announcing SCP-2603: Its Maiden Voyage, a Dream Team entry for the 2016 MTF Contest.
Come and see these Junk Males, wrapped in the package of SCP-2752!
Okay, so this is my first SCP. I'm not expecting it to do that well but it's a start. Go check it out and see what you think.
./headdesk
If you don't expect it to do well, why post it? Did you get review on a sandboxed draft before you posted?
I'm not expecting it to do that well but it's a start.
Generally it's best to hold off on a mainsite post until you feel like your piece is ready?
To some extent you probably need some confidence in the quality of your work but I have serious doubts and misgivings about all art that I produce, and I think that isn't unusual for creative types. Sometimes you just have to accept good enough and let the audience judge it.
While you have a point there in absolute terms, the Sandbox exists for a reason, sirpudding. It exists so that draft work can be reviewed and commented on so that pieces that the author has doubts about can be massaged into a format that will survive, rather than being downvoted into oblivion and reinforcing the author's doubts.
Sure, I'm not advocating spurning feedback by any means! Getting feedback and using it are skills that are essential to good writing. I just don't want to discourage people from sharing their art because it isn't "good enough". I could have honestly appended "I don't think it is good enough" to every announcement I've made here. In this case the author probably should have not posted, not because they were unsure of their work, but because they haven't yet put it through the critical feedback stage. I guess what I'm saying is: don't decide to post because you think it is good enough (you'll probably never post it then), decide to post when a number of others think it is.
Anybody who says they don't spend twenty minutes refreshing their articles on posting, praying downvotes don't appear is a dirty liar.
Amen to that, especially because I was actually convinced for a while that I was the only one who was that obsessive about posting new articles.
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I dream of the day I post something that gets to the twenties without any downvotes. AZURE PEREGRINE was so very close.
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