So. Why do you write? The easier question would be why wouldn't I write? I have a desire to see my words on paper. To engage in a relatively harmless form of fantasy fulfillment. I have things to say, stories to tell, how can I not write? Much of it doesn't make it to the light of day, admittedly - but as it says on my TPP profile, writing helps keep me sane.
How did you learn to write? What do you feel you're still learning to do? I don't know that I ever did learn to write. I took a year of creative writing my senior year of high school since I needed a class and it's what was available in my schedule, but I'd been writing, drawing, telling and making up stories since I was a small child. My freshman year of high school, two of my friends and I wrote TWO epic novels together. I found one of them recently and they were atrocious, LOL! But gosh, we had fun. We based the characters in one of them on our group of friends, and the other was original, based on the lives of a cast of characters in a production of Phantom of the Opera. I'm still learning how to plot, and pace, and make whole characters and not abuse commas. I'm sure I'll be learning that forever!
How much is your identity wrapped up in your writing and storytelling? Well, let me put it this way. I have never, ever, NOT thought of myself as a writer.
How much does audience play into what you do and how you do it? Oh, I'd like my audience to like the stuff I put into the public eye! I'd love to finish the novel I'm working on and submit it for publication and have it sell like gangbusters. But the writing that never sees the light of day? That's for me. Nobody else needs to see it, or like it, or approve of it.
What makes certain stories shine (yours or others) in your eyes? What do you look for in a story? What draws you to read certain stories or certain writers? I just want to stay interested. Sometimes it's the setting that gets me. Sometimes I've read an entire awful series b/c I fell in love with a minor character and must know what happened to them. I can cope with trite prose if the plot and story suck me in. I am NOT a book snob. I read Twilight. I liked it for what it was.
Does anybody else get this crash after finishing a big or otherwise important (to you) story? Does anybody know why it happens? LOL I've never finished a big story yet, sigh.
Does anybody else wonder why they do this and feel like they've just ripped off their skin and are waiting for the world's approval/approvation/rejection/indifference every time they post something? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.
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The easier question would be why wouldn't I write? I have a desire to see my words on paper. To engage in a relatively harmless form of fantasy fulfillment. I have things to say, stories to tell, how can I not write? Much of it doesn't make it to the light of day, admittedly - but as it says on my TPP profile, writing helps keep me sane.
How did you learn to write? What do you feel you're still learning to do?
I don't know that I ever did learn to write. I took a year of creative writing my senior year of high school since I needed a class and it's what was available in my schedule, but I'd been writing, drawing, telling and making up stories since I was a small child. My freshman year of high school, two of my friends and I wrote TWO epic novels together. I found one of them recently and they were atrocious, LOL! But gosh, we had fun. We based the characters in one of them on our group of friends, and the other was original, based on the lives of a cast of characters in a production of Phantom of the Opera. I'm still learning how to plot, and pace, and make whole characters and not abuse commas. I'm sure I'll be learning that forever!
How much is your identity wrapped up in your writing and storytelling?
Well, let me put it this way. I have never, ever, NOT thought of myself as a writer.
How much does audience play into what you do and how you do it?
Oh, I'd like my audience to like the stuff I put into the public eye! I'd love to finish the novel I'm working on and submit it for publication and have it sell like gangbusters. But the writing that never sees the light of day? That's for me. Nobody else needs to see it, or like it, or approve of it.
What makes certain stories shine (yours or others) in your eyes? What do you look for in a story? What draws you to read certain stories or certain writers?
I just want to stay interested. Sometimes it's the setting that gets me. Sometimes I've read an entire awful series b/c I fell in love with a minor character and must know what happened to them. I can cope with trite prose if the plot and story suck me in. I am NOT a book snob. I read Twilight. I liked it for what it was.
Does anybody else get this crash after finishing a big or otherwise important (to you) story? Does anybody know why it happens? LOL
I've never finished a big story yet, sigh.
Does anybody else wonder why they do this and feel like they've just ripped off their skin and are waiting for the world's approval/approvation/rejection/indifference every time they post something?
Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.