Joy's negativity and venting about writing thread

[joy_of_cooking]

I feel this is needed.

Please feel free to post pleasant unpleasant things about your writing experience and to compliment your fellow Lit inhabitants.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

I have to write another sex scene.

I really want to say, "They have sex. Use your imagination." and leave it at that, but I guess that's not what they're paying me for. And honestly, not what I would be reading for either.

 

[oneagainst]

They're paying you? What in??

 

[Bamagan]

My unpleasant experience was to find audience. I thought that's what I wanted, but I found myself starting to write for the audience rather than for myself, and enjoying the process less. I probably should have anticipated that, knowing that I'm an introvert IRL, but hindsight!

 

[SeraphNocturne]

They're paying you? What in??

…Attention, I’m guessing? That’s a hell of a currency around here.

I got an off handed half compliment comment on the audio recording for the intro of The Light Between the Trees.

Good but I prefer more 'natural' voices that don't sound like they're trying to be sexy (men and women) or intriguing.

I guess I should be flattered that I sound like I’m trying to be sexy? Even if I wasn’t. I was trying to sound dark and aggressive.

On that note, the entire audio category is chock full of people who are trying to sound like something, which I feel is the purpose of voice acting. Unless, of course, they’re just naturally masturbating into a microphone… and I ain’t doing that.

 

[davion2308]

They're paying you? What in??

I thought the same thing: "You guys are getting paid?"

I don't know that this is unpleasant outside the often-happening inability of me to finish up stories when I'm about 80% done. That's internal, though, and not related to what other people say. Sure, I get some negative comments or criticisms but anytime someone takes the time to actually say something, I must have done something right because I elicited an emotion from them. That's success.

Negative? Nah, I do this for fun. If it were that negative I'd just walk away.

 

[oneagainst]

…Attention, I’m guessing? That’s a hell of a currency around here.

I got an off handed half compliment comment on the audio recording for the intro of The Light Between the Trees.



I guess I should be flattered that I sound like I’m trying to be sexy? Even if I wasn’t. I was trying to sound dark and aggressive.

On that note, the entire audio category is chock full of people who are trying to sound like something, which I feel is the purpose of voice acting. Unless, of course, they’re just naturally masturbating into a microphone… and I ain’t doing that.

You rocked, and yeah, actually reading a story instead of sounding like an asthma attack....

 

[SeraphNocturne]

You rocked, and yeah, actually reading a story instead of sounding like an asthma attack....

At the end of the day your opinion is really all I cared about.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Upon finishing literally any story I've written lately:

"What do you mean it's depressing?! I had so much fun writing it!"

*other person slowly backs away.*

*reads https://www.literotica.com/p/the-nature-of-things *

wow, five stars and a comment.

But also, yeah, I see where "other person" is coming from.

 

[alohadave]

I have to write another sex scene.

I really want to say, "They have sex. Use your imagination." and leave it at that, but I guess that's not what they're paying me for. And honestly, not what I would be reading for either.

It could work.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

It could work.

Not in a stroker it couldn't! xD

I know, in lurid detail, how they're going to do it. Been thinking about it since yesterday. Now I just have to buckle down and write it.

 

[Bamagan]

Now I just have to buckle down and write it.

So it's a bondage scene, then?

Sorry, low-hanging fruit and all that.

 

[Djmac1031]

I have to write another sex scene.

I really want to say, "They have sex. Use your imagination." and leave it at that, but I guess that's not what they're paying me for. And honestly, not what I would be reading for either.

In the story I just finished writing, I literally exit the sex scene after the foreplay.

Because I realized the scene isn't about the sex so much as it was the one character finally giving in to her desires.

After that, it really would just be "first female character goes down on second female character, second female character returns the favor, many orgasms ensue."

I MIGHT still flesh it out a little more but not in any lengthy sense.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Sorry, low-hanging fruit and all that.

Your posts are displayed in a different font than everyone else, so I’m complaining about it. Individualism is nice and everything but where will it end? Comic sans??!?

 

[NoTalentHack]

Unless, of course, they’re just naturally masturbating into a microphone… and I ain’t doing that.

Sounds like a great way to ruin a perfectly good microphone.

 

[Bamagan]

Your posts are displayed in a different font than everyone else, so I’m complaining about it. Individualism is nice and everything but where will it end? Comic sans??!?

It ends with you in tears.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/a2l013

(condoms are commonly used as mic covers)

 

[MajorRewrite]

It ends with you in tears.

This is exactly what I feared. Font anarchy. Civilization is doomed.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I feel this is needed.

Please feel free to post pleasant unpleasant things about your writing experience and to compliment your fellow Lit inhabitants.

Is there an echo in here ?

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I MIGHT still flesh it out a little more but not in any lengthy sense.

So many double entendres…

Em

 

[Bamagan]

This is exactly what I feared. Font anarchy. Civilization is doomed.

A civilization that only wants one font deserves to be doomed.

 

[MajorRewrite]

A civilization that only wants one font deserves to be doomed.

You are a monster.

 

[Bamagan]

You are a monster.

Accurate.
A monster with seven fonts, and each time one is destroyed, two more rise to take its place.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I thought the same thing: "You guys are getting paid?"

I don't know that this is unpleasant outside the often-happening inability of me to finish up stories when I'm about 80% done. That's internal, though, and not related to what other people say. Sure, I get some negative comments or criticisms but anytime someone takes the time to actually say something, I must have done something right because I elicited an emotion from them. That's success.

Negative? Nah, I do this for fun. If it were that negative I'd just walk away.

Have you ever considered that maybe you cant write any more because the story is done? Maybe when you feel blocked that far along, the best thing to do would be to find a way to wrap it up at that point as elegantly as you can.

 

[oneagainst]

So, getting back to the thread... getting carpet 1 bombed for writing about a cheating wife, then getting 1 bombed in the next unrelated chapter by same who is now skipping the rest of my story to get to the cheating wife bit that he hates. You can't please all the people all the time. Sometimes the only person you can please is Dave, who lives on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere.

To all the Daves! You are my spirit animal