As a writer?

[CharleyH]

What brings you down or disappoints you about writing?

 

[Guest]

plot.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Realizing I have nothing much to say.

 

[CharleyH]

plot.

So how do you deal with it?

 

[CharleyH]

Realizing I have nothing much to say.

I bet you do, so what the hell are you waiting for?

 

[Guest]

So how do you deal with it?

i havent really figured that out yet.
its hard to see what other people might find interesting...so i just write and hope for the best.

 

[Alex756]

When I have something to say and I just can't find the right way to do it.

My attempts at solution are to try and try again... sometimes it fails and ends up in the circular file, sometimes I work it out

-Alex

 

[CharleyH]

i havent really figured that out yet.
its hard to see what other people might find interesting...so i just write and hope for the best.

Why not try writing what turns you on, then?

 

[CharleyH]

When I have something to say and I just can't find the right way to do it.

My attempts at solution are to try and try again... sometimes it fails and ends up in the circular file, sometimes I work it out

-Alex

Well, I get a lot of flack, so what? Is it so disappointing if what you write turns you on?

 

[impressive]

What brings you down or disappoints you about writing?

When I learn something new, I wanna go back and fix all the old stuff ... but (a) I'm too lazy; and (b) it's a big damned job. So, the old stuff just lays there ... staring at me without blinking.

I'm bummed about my output, too. I wanna produce more, but I'm so incredibly linear that I have to finish one thing before starting another ... and then wait to hear whether or not it's been accepted, even.

I get impatient with research ... although it can be kinda fun, it's time consuming. Easy to get sucked off on a tangent, too.

*sigh* I don't have the discipline to do this author shit well ... and now, so I'm told, at least 25% of the time invested in being an author should be spent selling oneself. Okay, so I can play on message boards and blog and banter on Yahoo!Groups and generally "expose myself" (with the obligatory sig-line promo, of course) ... but where's the beef?

Okay, I'm tired and drugged. Going to bed, now.

 

[elsol]

Readers.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[dr_mabeuse]

What brings you down or disappoints you about writing?

The groupies aren't what I'd hoped for.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

The groupies aren't what I'd hoped for.

You've got a bunch here.

 

[CharleyH]

When I learn something new, I wanna go back and fix all the old stuff ... but (a) I'm too lazy; and (b) it's a big damned job. So, the old stuff just lays there ... staring at me without blinking.

I'm bummed about my output, too. I wanna produce more, but I'm so incredibly linear that I have to finish one thing before starting another ... and then wait to hear whether or not it's been accepted, even.

I get impatient with research ... although it can be kinda fun, it's time consuming. Easy to get sucked off on a tangent, too.

*sigh* I don't have the discipline to do this author shit well ... and now, so I'm told, at least 25% of the time invested in being an author should be spent selling oneself. Okay, so I can play on message boards and blog and banter on Yahoo!Groups and generally "expose myself" (with the obligatory sig-line promo, of course) ... but where's the beef?

Okay, I'm tired and drugged. Going to bed, now.

You need to be agressive in your fantasies and writing night night, love Thanks for your input.

 

[CharleyH]

The groupies aren't what I'd hoped for.

Hm, maybe you are not writing what "YOUR" groupies are interested in? Maybe you have lost touch with you and your writers?

lol Get serious Doc, I know you wanna be! I am trying to ask writerly things here!

 

[carsonshepherd]

Nothing brings me down or disappoints me about writing.... it's when I can't, for whatever reason, that it brings me down.

 

[CharleyH]

Nothing brings me down or disappoints me about writing.... it's when I can't, for whatever reason, that it brings me down.

And you always overcome it, no? Is not writing for us, the most beautiful experience? We get blocked, I think when we forget not only this, but the awe around us - good and bad. They are both equally ... lets say intriguing for now.

 

[cloudy]

I'm such a damned perfectionist sometimes that I can't just write, and go back and fix it later. Every single word is weighed and thought about to make sure it's the one I want to use.

I wish I could just go ahead and write, and worry about fixing it later, but I'm just not wired that way, unfortunately.

 

[CharleyH]

I'm such a damned perfectionist sometimes that I can't just write, and go back and fix it later. Every single word is weighed and thought about to make sure it's the one I want to use.

I wish I could just go ahead and write, and worry about fixing it later, but I'm just not wired that way, unfortunately.

I am like you in a way, yet I have come to love people's opinion Never means you have to change a thing that you like? As your SDC experience should have taught you?

 

[rgraham666]

Two things for me.

Like Imp, I have a lot of trouble working on more than one piece at a time. I pretty much have to go through the whole cycle before I'm free to work on on another piece.

And starting a new one is a pain. I always poke at it for a while before really getting started.

I haven't, yet, started to try and sell my stuff. I am not looking forward to it.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I bet you do, so what the hell are you waiting for?

Inspiration? To feel passionate enough about something to write? To clear my head of enough other things to focus on any one thing? All of the above? Yes.

 

[Stella_Omega]

What brings you down or disappoints you about writing?

That i don't have time to actually write it all- and so much slips away before I can pin it to the page

 

[maggot420]

What brings you down or disappoints you about writing?

After I've written something; part of a story or a chapter, the darkness comes and I am suffocated in apathy. Everything loses its meaning and I can't continue for lack of heart and hope. The air becomes so thick I feel like I'm drowning. I lose all will to write further and I fade away, like so many half finished stories before me.

 

[yui]

After I've written something; part of a story or a chapter, the darkness comes and I am suffocated in apathy. Everything loses its meaning and I can't continue for lack of heart and hope. The air becomes so thick I feel like I'm drowning. I lose all will to write further and I fade away, like so many half finished stories before me.

 

[lil_elvis]

Being able to keep writing the part of the story I'm working on. Stray thoughts about what I have previously written (for the same story) interrupt the flow of what I'm trying to write.

The little muse voice (or maybe some alien probing my mind) says "You know that bit you wrote 3 pages ago would be better if..."

Makes actually completing stories a bitch, cuz I loose my train of thought and all the brilliant words that were about to be typed are lost forever.