Job affecting my writing...

[BiscuitHammer]

Not in a bad 'stress keeps me from writing' way, though. Because I work in movies/TV, I'm finding that I approach my stories from a certain point of view now- I'm always checking for dialogue flow and consistency, I am constantly considering lighting, shading and colours in my damn scenes, or ambient sounds...

I'm not kidding, it's affecting how I write these stories. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about a budget. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's certainly having an impact on how I see my writing and tackle it.

I've taken to entertaining myself by imagining my stories as movies or series, rife with depravity and carnal goodness from front to back. If I had a zillion dollar budget, I'm convinced that some of my stories would make for really epic porn.

So basically my job has blown my stories' budgets out of the water and given me a new angle to write from. What about you all? Has your job directly affected how you write on here?

- BH

 

[Jada59]

Not in a bad 'stress keeps me from writing' way, though. Because I work in movies/TV, I'm finding that I approach my stories from a certain point of view now- I'm always checking for dialogue flow and consistency, I am constantly considering lighting, shading and colours in my damn scenes, or ambient sounds...

I'm not kidding, it's affecting how I write these stories. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about a budget. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's certainly having an impact on how I see my writing and tackle it.

I've taken to entertaining myself by imagining my stories as movies or series, rife with depravity and carnal goodness from front to back. If I had a zillion dollar budget, I'm convinced that some of my stories would make for really epic porn.

So basically my job has blown my stories' budgets out of the water and given me a new angle to write from. What about you all? Has your job directly affected how you write on here?

- BH

I can see that. Years ago I read a book about Willie Sutton, the bank robber. For years after that, every time I went by a bank, my mind went into how to rob it mode. Not that I would rob a bank but I couldn't shake the images from my mind.

 

[nosebone]

Not in a bad 'stress keeps me from writing' way, though. Because I work in movies/TV, I'm finding that I approach my stories from a certain point of view now- I'm always checking for dialogue flow and consistency, I am constantly considering lighting, shading and colours in my damn scenes, or ambient sounds...

I'm not kidding, it's affecting how I write these stories. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about a budget. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's certainly having an impact on how I see my writing and tackle it.

I've taken to entertaining myself by imagining my stories as movies or series, rife with depravity and carnal goodness from front to back. If I had a zillion dollar budget, I'm convinced that some of my stories would make for really epic porn.

So basically my job has blown my stories' budgets out of the water and given me a new angle to write from. What about you all? Has your job directly affected how you write on here?

- BH

This is interesting. My work life does not provide a lot of writing stimulus like this. I think my work does affect my writing though. Given my job, I find there are times when I'm riding with my younger colleagues (millennials) and I'm not the driver. I'm usually quite terrified by their driving skills, so I pull out my phone and outline or write text for later incorporation to existing stories. I've generated some amazing word counts on my phone on these little jaunts. The little rascals probably think I'm facebooking with a bunch of 'conservative old guys', and I'm writing some bisexual or incestual smut of low morality!

 

[TxRad]

Job? Job? Oh yeah, I remember those. It's what I did before I got retired. Is my job now, being retired? If so, I'm working much longer hours and the pay is far less. Of course my writing is paying a lot better now than it did back then so, I'm ahead of the game.

I have more time to people watch but fewer places to do it. I have a lot more writing time but I also have more things taking up my time in general.

I've had a couple of comments over the years tell me the story should be a movie. Finding porn actors that can actually act and deliver lines more complex than grunts, groans, and moans would be the big problem.

 

[Alice_Rosaleen]

If I'm writing sci-fi or cyberpunk, or even if I'm not, I will find myself wanting to use work jargon. Perceived Affordance, Metaheuristic Algorithms, Abstraction Layering, and Universal Logic Gate are some of my favorites to work in.