Bryan Murphy's Blog - Posts Tagged "evaluation"

I guess I’m not the only person here working on their first novel. In terms of the target I set for completing a first draft, I’m well ahead of schedule. Now, here’s the strange thing. Because I have a background in psychology and linguistics, I imagined my characters would be deep and my language scintillating, even if I sometimes lost the plot. Yet the opposite is happening. My inner critic tells me that the characters are shallow and the language ordinary, though the plot skips along nicely. It turns out I am primarily a storyteller. Should I be happy or distraught?