The color thing is way too complicated for me. I save it for special occasions.
Writing is a compulsion for me for, funny enough, similar reasons to your day dreams--I do the day dream thing but I need to write it down to find out what happens next. If I don't write it down in something like Best Souvenir I lose the thread and forget what happened so far, especially as far as character development (not so much events). Plus as rahirah says of herself above, I adore reading my own fic. I have trouble remembering my fantasies when I go back to them days/weeks/mos/yrs later unless I write them down.
But I also like word play, and that doesn't become fun until it's written out on paper. I have no idea why.
That, or, "Gee, Stulti, you'll never be really good until you do this, this and this," because I'm interested in the craft, and want badly to understand it, even if my ambition never makes my own writing great.
I never thought about it that way. I guess I feel like for me someone else telling me I did a good job with it, *or* telling me I didn't do a good job with it wouldn't satisfy my need to understand it because the it isn't something outside myself I'm trying to grasp. Perhaps it is for you; I suspect it is because you use the word "craft". I don't know what word I would use, but often I feel like what I'm interested in and wanting to understand is the compulsion within mself. I'd like it to be validated by outside forces and sometimes I'm disappointed when it's not, but in the end it's about this thing in me.
But when I write Spuffy, I'm not writing to prove a point.
The B/A I write, most of which is unseen at this point, isn't either. But the last definitely was.
I speak of my brain and not my hot, tight little bod.
Good to know.
Not just returning the compliment
Heh, thanks.
you frequently get all slobbery with love,
your writing makes my speaking English good!
she writes short stuff (so far, heehaw!), like me, so I feel less inadequate.
This puzzles me. It bothers me how long most of my stories are, and how I can't seem to think of snapshot scenes, or quick little stories, and feel like I should be able to do them if I really want to write. Then again, I have a rather violent dislike for much of short fiction in the published world. I like fanfic better in that corner.
As usual, you give me things to think about. Thank you!
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Writing is a compulsion for me for, funny enough, similar reasons to your day dreams--I do the day dream thing but I need to write it down to find out what happens next. If I don't write it down in something like Best Souvenir I lose the thread and forget what happened so far, especially as far as character development (not so much events). Plus as
But I also like word play, and that doesn't become fun until it's written out on paper. I have no idea why.
That, or, "Gee, Stulti, you'll never be really good until you do this, this and this," because I'm interested in the craft, and want badly to understand it, even if my ambition never makes my own writing great.
I never thought about it that way. I guess I feel like for me someone else telling me I did a good job with it, *or* telling me I didn't do a good job with it wouldn't satisfy my need to understand it because the it isn't something outside myself I'm trying to grasp. Perhaps it is for you; I suspect it is because you use the word "craft". I don't know what word I would use, but often I feel like what I'm interested in and wanting to understand is the compulsion within mself. I'd like it to be validated by outside forces and sometimes I'm disappointed when it's not, but in the end it's about this thing in me.
But when I write Spuffy, I'm not writing to prove a point.
The B/A I write, most of which is unseen at this point, isn't either. But the last definitely was.
I speak of my brain and not my hot, tight little bod.
Good to know.
Not just returning the compliment
Heh, thanks.
you frequently get all slobbery with love,
your writing makes my speaking English good!
she writes short stuff (so far, heehaw!), like me, so I feel less inadequate.
This puzzles me. It bothers me how long most of my stories are, and how I can't seem to think of snapshot scenes, or quick little stories, and feel like I should be able to do them if I really want to write. Then again, I have a rather violent dislike for much of short fiction in the published world. I like fanfic better in that corner.
As usual, you give me things to think about. Thank you!