Any NF/F writers here?

I know Adam has written blogs before and Travis’ brilliant reviews are like mini novels 😁 Thatcher also does some writing but he’s not been around for a while. I have my fill of writing at work so don’t write 😉 Putting up an album review might be a safe way of getting others to judge your writing style if you’re comfortable with that?

If an album review has a mission to describe the emotions that the music solicits (and I think it should have) then this reads like a fine review. I don’t know Darkspace (perhaps to my shame) but I’m certainly intrigued and will give the album a listen.

ColdReverie wrote: So I'm currently trying to get back into writing on a regular basis, be it prose, blog material, or reviews (books, mainly), which is something I haven't really done for at least ten years. The trouble is, I'm finding it difficult to establish a routine, but especially to judge my work fairly. In other words, whatever emerges from my putting pen to paper is automatically a pile of garbage in my eyes. For example, whenever I write a review for a book on Goodreads, I immediately start comparing it with other reviews, which always culminates in me thinking "Well, mine is pretty shit, isn't it?" and feeling heavily discouraged. Have you also been through this stage, and if so, how did you get yourself out of it? What tips could you give to improve writing (be it fiction or non-fiction)?

I often write isolated individual scenes when they are in my head to be incorporated later. I tend to like my writing on those more than anything I ever wrote as the first chapter. I think my biggest problem is that although I have a lot of plans and have done a lot of world and character building, I'm still unclear on exactly how and where the story should open and which character should be introduced first. Logic says it should be my main lead, but in some ways it makes more sense to start the story with one of my secondary protagonists. And I'm not convinced one of them isn't just deadweight in the story now that I've changed the setting and much of the plot. I may well cut him if I stick with the setting I have now. 

I think I go a bit the other way and often think "fuck it, that's good enough. Time to move on", but I have a background in journalism where you can't spend all day trying to get things perfect because there are daily deadlines staring you in the face.