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If I don't enjoy reading my own prose, it's an indication that I'm writing shallow stories.
Quick page-turners that keep you in suspense about how things will turn out are all well and good, but my goal is to write the kind of story you can come back to over and over and still find something new.
Thinking over my portfolio, for an audience of me, it seems that I'm successful about half of the time:
Blue Ink -- enjoy the characters, but don't like to read it because I don't like the sad ending.
Dead Men Don't Cry -- get bored; I know who dunnit.
Backlash -- can't open the document without getting sucked in and reading at least three pages.
Movement -- will open the document on purpose just to read the beautiful opening lines. Will often read through to the end, all the while feeling ashamed at being so in love with my own prose.
Hexes and Tooth Decay -- fun to read about once per year.
Tammi's Garden -- embarassing to read. Did I really understand so little about plot advancement?
In the Halls of the Sky-Palace -- get sucked in.
The Half-Life of Chocolate -- we're not talking about that one.
(The list goes on, but you get the idea.)
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