I am a writer. I am a storyteller, a crafter of words and expressions, weaving tales from distal lands you've never heard of.

I've been focusing too much on pretty images and purple prose, neglecting my characters as well as my plot. I realise now I have been killing my story with the huge amount of purple prose I libreally SMACK it with. Now, reading the work I have submitted, I realise that the most recent things I've submitted are CRAP. Completely terrible!

At least Wonderland was saved by the dialogue bit in the middle, but the purple patches in front is definitely unsalvagable.

Oh God I can't believe I had the temerity to submit such crap up! Yuck yuck yuck...it tastes like am overdone ice creasm, crammed full of all sorts of flavours around the world. However, you can't taste a single thign or even learn to appreciate it because everything is very overpowering. The pleasant ingredients have turned into something pungent with that muddled combination. Oh gross.

Maybe I should delete it. Or I can rewrite the bit in front so the dream sequence won't be entirely too overpowering.

Now finished editing 'Wonderland, and I think I went a little too delete-happy. Quite satisfied with this version now, unfortunately the lack of bad writing in the beginning just made my suckiness in dialogue a little more obvious. The doctors is like some deux ex machina for expository writing, and the mum is a bit too flat (too typical-I-shall-cry-my-eyes-out-like-a-weakling), the only interesting character was the main character, and even that was major suckage. The doctor was fine, and that was because he is a deux ex machina and a professional.

Blah. I think my characters are too blah. The only intersting character I created was Caroline, who betrayed her best friend (for reasons unknown to the reader) and was murdered in a church by said friend's brother, who then commited suicide after finishing her off. Hang on! That was plot, not character, Caroline was a flat, undeveloped character!

Well, the unnamed character in The Other End of Mirrors, who I can easily identify with because of my eczema condition. I think that is the only good character I created who I really explored themes and issues through.