Something about me

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I love to write.

Even when nothing goes right and I have to tear it all apart and it's not coming to me and I can't ever be as good as I imagine and I can't go to sleep at night because of it and I stress about never publishing original stuff.

I love it. More than just about anyone or anything in the world. I love it like that.

Comments

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

Me too. :)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

<3

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

yiiiiiiiiiiiiis.

and amen.

;)

Just. Like. That. Takes over your soul or maybe it came from there, but all the same ... it is what we do. What we eat and breathe and talk and live and love. Even when it hurts. Even when it cuts. And especially when it makes us smile.

**smooches you**

[tkp.livejournal.com]

exactly! *loves*

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's a good thing because we love to read you.
Now how about a new chapter of Best Souvenir?

Hopeful fan.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hee! I don't know who you are. But anyway a2zmom said she'll beta it soon. So, hopefully!

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Me too.

Except when I hate it more than anything in the world. More than spam in a can, or Nazis even.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Even when I hate it most I never want to walk away or give up. And that makes me even more frustrated, but I am so owned.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I couldn't give it up if I wanted to. The stories are too loud. Which makes me sound insane.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

you are a bit of crazy. In the good way, though.

The way it is with me is like I'm making the noise. So if I stopped it would be the silence that would make me take a powerdrill to my ear.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

For me it's like the story already exists out there somewhere, but it's all broken up into bits, and it's my job to find all the pieces of it, and put it together the way it's supposed to be.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I think it's fascinating how differently it occurs to different people.

I wish I could describe how it is for me, because it's so very similar to yours and so very *not*. I guess, in the end, it feels like I'm taking something--my life, I guess, the world, certain truths, canon if it's fanfiction but much more than that--and writing for me is breaking that something into bits, each of which is a story. And if I didn't do that breaking down everything would be just one formless blob without shape or color or sound. You could probably shoot me and convince me it didn't really happen to me.

[imnotacommittee.livejournal.com]

Brava, my dear. Cherish that love. Let it soak over you. It must be love if you just have to do it even when it keeps you up at night. And you'll publish original stuff. With a passion like that, how can you not?!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I try not to write anything just before I go to bed, especially something that isn't going well, because I angst over it all night long.

Thank you so much, Amy. :o) *huggles you*

[imnotacommittee.livejournal.com]

That's a wise move. Nothing's worse (or better) than thinking about your stories/thoughts/etc. as you drift off to sleep. Or if they keep you up.

Hugging back :-)

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Word. Like breathing.

I write even when I'm writing something boring for work - it just veers off and I have to rein it back in.

What would it be like, to live without the urge to write?

I don't ever want to know.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

it just veers off and I have to rein it back in.

That happened to me a lot in school.

Yeah, it's very firmly a large part of who I am.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

_and_ cake.

*smoosh*

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Me too. Even though it feels like forever since I managed to complete an actual fic, the desire to write is there every single day driving me nuts, right along with scenes from fics I haven't written yet going through my head. It gets a little distracting at times, you know, when you're trying to get on with your day to day life and the inner writer keeps butting in with suggestions, comments, things to remember for the time when they might be useful; and don't even get me started on how some characters just refuse to shut up and keep demanding to be written. Yes, I realise this probably makes me sound insane *g* I still write notes, I have piles of them, set aside agaist the blessed day when I find I can actual manage to write a story again.

Your love of writing certainly comes over in your fics. It's a wonderful thing.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think that people who aren't expressing themselves in some way and don't feel the driving need to do so are the ones that're insane.

Thanks, and I hope you get a chance/get to the place to write again. It makes me feel so empty when I can't do it that I really hope you do!

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

I am happy for you, and a bit envious. Because I can't write anything now except on my LJs. :/

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh noes!! Maybe it will come back to you?

I've been having trouble writing original fic for a while now, though.

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

I hope it comes back.

Good luck with your original fiction mojo...

OT: Hi......

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to post and introduce myself since I found your LJ through one of my flist buddies and friended you since I thought we had some interests in common.

I'm 37 and have been a Dracula/vampires fan for over 25 years. My other interests are Phantom of the Opera (since '89) and the anime/manga Hellsing.

Feel free to read my LJ, Dracula stories and friend me back:)

Take care,
Chris

Re: OT: Hi......

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Hi, great to meet you. It's awesome to meet another POTO fan!

As for me, the content here is mostly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series related, so if those aren't your kinda vampires you might get bored. I've been wanting to get back into the swing of phandom but it hasn't really happened yet. So feel free to defriend any time; I don't take it personally.

I try to keep my flist really small so I might not friend you back, but again, it's not a personal thing. I'll always be interested in what you have to say and I surf through others' journals quite often.

Thanks for the introduction, and welcome.

[zibbycomix.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you love writing so much, because I love reading your writing. =)
For me, writing is a release- it helps me deal with anything that's frustrating or angering me. I tend to keep my feelings hidden and pent-up, and by just writing whatever I can help myself express them. And, you know, I won't have a breakdown. =P
But writing can also be joyful too. I've written a (very) few things that I've absolutely loved to write, and loved to read, and been really proud of. =)
Yeah for writing! =)