I took a class or two in creative writing, which taught me that academic and journalistic writing bring much quicker gratification to me. :-) Ahh. Audience is everything. Audience is why we have words. Your questions drew me to the somewhat embarrassing realization that my writing is just a slightly matured form of a baby's cry: I'm not hungry. I'm not wet. I just want to be picked up and held. If there's nobody reading, I will not write. I can quilt or read or cook.
I have become accustomed to the post-writing crash in which I am convinced that I have written the most revolting, belly-crawling garbage and have perpetrated a violence against humankind in releasing it publicly. I've learned to expect and ignore it. :-P Whatever. There's also the fear of a mob coming to beat me to death for having been grossly obvious in my writing, which is rather more alarming. I am certain that these discomforts would be exponentially greater if I wrote fiction, which leads to my policy of bludgeoning plot bunnies without mercy. I do have a bunny or two who is so insistent that I may join the cult of "I wanted to read this story, so I had to write it," and if that happens, I expect full-blown neurosis as I realize I must learn humiliatingly basic fiction skills and cannot aspire to more than mediocrity. I don't know why you fiction writers keep grinning maniacally and urging the rest of us to give it a try.
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Date: 2011-08-29 03:12 am (UTC)I have become accustomed to the post-writing crash in which I am convinced that I have written the most revolting, belly-crawling garbage and have perpetrated a violence against humankind in releasing it publicly. I've learned to expect and ignore it. :-P Whatever. There's also the fear of a mob coming to beat me to death for having been grossly obvious in my writing, which is rather more alarming. I am certain that these discomforts would be exponentially greater if I wrote fiction, which leads to my policy of bludgeoning plot bunnies without mercy. I do have a bunny or two who is so insistent that I may join the cult of "I wanted to read this story, so I had to write it," and if that happens, I expect full-blown neurosis as I realize I must learn humiliatingly basic fiction skills and cannot aspire to more than mediocrity. I don't know why you fiction writers keep grinning maniacally and urging the rest of us to give it a try.