how do you know you can write?

[janny108]

How do you know if you have it in you to write? I have written for fanfiction and I do a monthly letter both of which I've had good feedback about. One person said reading my letters made her feel like she had been where I had been.

Also, has anyone here had anything published?
Jan

 

[Tariel]

To answer your second question first, I've mostly only had book reviews published so far.

In answer to your first, how does anybody know they can do anything? If you feel satisfied with your work, if other people tell you it's good, and if you love writing, chances are, you can do it.

Note: this is not a foolproof method

 

[Peaceful Dove]

They say that every writer is secretly dreading the day they'll be exposed as a fraud.

The letter-writing thing, though, is a good tell--people with natural talent tend to write great letters. Or they did in the days before email and texting, anyway.

 

[Joshua Cintron]

They say that every writer is secretly dreading the day they'll be exposed as a fraud.

The letter-writing thing, though, is a good tell--people with natural talent tend to write great letters. Or they did in the days before email and texting, anyway.

Is being exposed the beginning of truly finding what purpose lies within? If one can find the flaw laying quietly in the soul, than it is only a matter of time before success achieved. ~joshuacintron.me

 

[catzetier]

How do you know if you have it in you to write? I have written for fanfiction and I do a monthly letter both of which I've had good feedback about. One person said reading my letters made her feel like she had been where I had been.

Also, has anyone here had anything published?
Jan

I write fanfiction and poetry and my way of knowing whether or not it's good is whether or not I can read it a while afterwards without having to laugh at how stupid it is. And also getting good marks in a university poetry/creative writing class (the short story I wrote for that was not fanfiction)!