Poll Happy/Sad

[NoJo]

Do you write best when everything's hunky dory, and you're simply madly gay? Or when everything's a little numb and vague, and you're down in dumps and generally feeling mis?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Do you write best when everything's hunky dory, and you're simply madly gay? Or when everything's a little numb and vague, and you're down in dumps and generally feeling mis?

I tend to write better when I am happy. It I am down in the dumps, I usually have something on my mind and have a hard time concentrating on what I am writing about. It's not mood so much as preoccupation, although when I anticipating good times, I can usually write okay.

 

[Guest]

Madly gay for me, too. As Box said, if I'm down for some reason, it's usually because something is troubling me, and I can't write when I've got worries on my mind.

A lot of what I write is dark, and I find being in a happy disposition myself helps keeps some balance in what I'm writing, and all of the characters don't turn into murderous psychopaths within two pages.

Lou

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I write best when I'm emotionally hungry, in a mild rage or a passion of need. For sex scenes I try to work myself up into a foaming froth of salacious desire. I get way too into it.

---dr.M.

 

[NoJo]

For the record, I write better when I'm feeling pissed off and slightly "dark". Like the doctor, only less psychotic.

 

[Guest]

All of my non-Lit. work before my recent novel was written at some level of despair and emotional pain. I wrote my first novel's first draft in about two months, then did the edits over a another few months; it kept me alive (then I went into 'the darkness'). Most of my poems come from loss.

So that leaves erotica for fun times .

Perdita

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Madly gay....makes a world of difference when attempting lesbian sex category.

~lucky

 

[destinie21]

I write whatever my mood but I do love the madly gay days

 

[oggbashan]

I write better when I'm angry.

Writing gets rid of some of the anger so that I can think logically about the cause of the anger.

My darkest story (Donna) was written when I was happy and feeling at peace with the world. Why I wrote such a depressing story then? I don't know.

Og

 

[SadieRose]

I can write in good moods or dark ones. Generally the dark ones produce the best material. During the good ones I'm experiencing life and soaking it in an it gets recycled later when I'm more reflective.

Depressive episodes and bad-mood bear days give me the most potent feedback as regards my writing. I can shut myself away then and channel my darkest thoughts into fiction. *god that sounds really pseudy... but it's true*


*grrr*

Sadie.x

 

[Guest]

 

[Just_John1]

Moods

My work reflects my moods, my beststuff is when I'm feeling down, melancholy, lonely. I don't write well when I'm happy...

JJ1

 

[damppanties]

I write when I'm happy and I write when I'm sad. I can't write when I'm bored though. That's when I seem to want it the most, but no. It doesn't happen. Like now. I'm supposed to be writing.