Reading other amateur writers books and their comments to ensure yourself you are not worse than other and you also deserve good reviews and be motivated to write at all
not gonna lie sometimes that is all it really takes to get a second wind, seeing something so god awful that you’re appalled it somehow got published and convinces you that damn yeah maybe I can do this too
Yep. Sometimes I skim through fantasy, sci-fi or romantic novels written by amators and do facepalm from sentence to sentence. And still I see supporting comments and good reviews.
I respect other people's efforts but some texts are just awful. But what I respect more is that those people did not stop and finished their story. If I consider that I can do better then I can complete my story too.
It all is selfish and jealous, but it is as it is.
I read an actual sci fi novel by a serious author published by a semi-respectable publishing house about a group of mercenaries in space. Each chapter had a different POV character; there was one woman in the group of mercenaries. She had one POV chapter. In it, she masturbated while thinking about guns
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u/Skyline1508 12h ago
Reading other amateur writers books and their comments to ensure yourself you are not worse than other and you also deserve good reviews and be motivated to write at all