Oh, this post is so perfectly-timed; I've been doing some navel-gazing of my own lately, ha. Oh dear.
I absolutely believe in the post-story crash. I get it with long stories AND short ones - usually if there's any sort of emotional investment in it whatsoever.
I'm in grad school for not-writing right now, though I have done a bit of creative writing in a formal setting and actually have a book of poetry that was published a few years ago. (What I write outside of fandom is very different from what I write inside of it, ha.) I realized a year or so ago that the reason I wanted to go into academia isn't because I actually want to go into academia, but because that seemed like the closest I could get to being paid to write.
I don't think we really need any justification to write, do we? We write because we can (or have to), or because we can't see ourselves doing anything else. That's part of what I love about it. :D
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I absolutely believe in the post-story crash. I get it with long stories AND short ones - usually if there's any sort of emotional investment in it whatsoever.
I'm in grad school for not-writing right now, though I have done a bit of creative writing in a formal setting and actually have a book of poetry that was published a few years ago. (What I write outside of fandom is very different from what I write inside of it, ha.) I realized a year or so ago that the reason I wanted to go into academia isn't because I actually want to go into academia, but because that seemed like the closest I could get to being paid to write.
I don't think we really need any justification to write, do we? We write because we can (or have to), or because we can't see ourselves doing anything else. That's part of what I love about it. :D