Shit or Shinola?

[dr_mabeuse]

What's better: (a) Writing shit or (b) writing nothing at all?

If (a), then why aren't you writing?

If (b), then why do you ever bother at all?

 

[impressive]

Practices makes perfect ... or at least that's what my mama told me.

If (a), then why aren't you writing?

'Cause I'm zoned out on oxycodone ATM.

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's okay to write shit- and I do sometimes- just don't ask me to read it... Not even my own...

 

[elsol]

I don't write shit.

Regardless of what Mr. Anonymous thinks.

Sincerely,
ElSol

ps. Poetry doesn't count...

 

[tolyk]

I don't write shit.

Regardless of what Mr. Anonymous thinks.

Sincerely,
ElSol

ps. Poetry doesn't count...

Elsol, that wasn't the question.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I write just as much shit as I write good stuff. Let me first say I only write to entertain myself, above any other reason. Writing shit can still be entertaining for me. Maybe being a good writer is knowing the difference between the two.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

It's always better to be writing. Even if you have to drop the hsit in a folder. Sometimes good ideas can be found among the worst rubbish you have written. perhap at a later date something you churned out when the spirit just didn't move you will provide something to work from in a work when it is.

 

[davidwatts]

A proud Literotica fertilizer

'Tis better to have shat and been trolled than never to have shat at all.

I bother because my wife prefers my hands on the keyboard over the alternative.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

All I manage to write is shit, but hey, everyone need a hobby.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I asked because I just found a lovely notebook I'd bought years ago, intending to keep a journal. It was totally blank.

I know what had happened: I'd been so worried I'd write shit in that lovely, hardbound notebook that I didn't write anything at all, and I soon forgot about it. The notebook sat empty.

Now how I wish I'd put any sort of nonsense in it, no matter how bad and embarrassing. Anything is better than blank paper.

 

[davidwatts]

I asked because I just found a lovely notebook I'd bought years ago, intending to keep a journal. It was totally blank.

I know what had happened: I'd been so worried I'd write shit in that lovely, hardbound notebook that I didn't write anything at all, and I soon forgot about it. The notebook sat empty.

Now how I wish I'd put any sort of nonsense in it, no matter how bad and embarrassing. Anything is better than blank paper.

At least you can still use it. Last week I found this nice bound calendar/journal type thing that I bought in a moment of weakness.

Anybody know when 1998 is coming around again?

 

[Liar]

What's better: (a) Writing shit or (b) writing nothing at all?

I'm leaning towards B. When only shit comes out, use your time to do something else. If it's something interresting, it might inspire you to write something good. I believe that to write stuff, you need to collect stuff to write about.

If (a), then why aren't you writing?

I am. I just don't show it to you.

If (b), then why do you ever bother at all?

Dude, are you implying I write shit?

 

[carsonshepherd]

I asked because I just found a lovely notebook I'd bought years ago, intending to keep a journal. It was totally blank.

I know what had happened: I'd been so worried I'd write shit in that lovely, hardbound notebook that I didn't write anything at all, and I soon forgot about it. The notebook sat empty.

Now how I wish I'd put any sort of nonsense in it, no matter how bad and embarrassing. Anything is better than blank paper.

you know, this is the very reason I like word processing. I have piles and piles of notebooks from back before I had a computer. They are all shit and there they are, veritably carved in stone. They have the possibility to outlive me. The written word is so irrevocable; but the word on a screen is only a stroke of the delete key from oblivion. For some reason, I find that so liberating. I can write crap, and if I don't like it later I can just delete and it's gone forever, unlike in a paper journal.

 

[R. Richard]

What's better: (a) Writing shit or (b) writing nothing at all?

If (a), then why aren't you writing?

If (b), then why do you ever bother at all?

The answer is (a). Once you have written shit, you can go back and analyze the writing and find out what made it shit. Then you can edit it and/or rewrite it to eliminate at least sone of the shit. Step by step you can learn to write good stuff, instead of shit.

If you choose (b), you will never improve.

Simple reasoning.

 

[impressive]

I can write crap, and if I don't like it later I can just delete and it's gone forever, unlike in a paper journal.

I have a Bic that takes care of the paper.

 

[Alex756]

Shit definately.

I'm finishing up a story tonight that I wrote shit for the ending I think 8 times, each time it went wrong and I kept going back and back and back, taking what I could from the shit and making it better. Now I have the final ending almost done, and 12 word pages to delete of shit. The 12 words pages were trying to accomplish what I finnally managed in 5 paragraphs in the final.

One of the pieces of shit actually somehow ended up with a pig being killed,rewrote until the final 5 paragraphs that stayed are a female masturbation scene. It took alot of shit to get to the pony.

-Alex

 

[dr_mabeuse]

One of the pieces of shit actually somehow ended up with a pig being killed, rewrote until the final 5 paragraphs that stayed are a female masturbation scene. It took alot of shit to get to the pony.

-Alex

Wow. I want to read this one. There must be some sort of award for that kind of rewrite.

 

[rgraham666]

Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap"

Ellison's Corollary: "Even mine. But at least I never set out to create shit."

That sums it up for me.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I have a Bic that takes care of the paper.

heretic!

 

[cantdog]

Heretic my ass. Writing for the trunk is masturbation.

I like masturbation, though. So it's no big thing. And occasionally the trunk is useful.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Hmm, probably B.

Now, now, I do write shit and I don't have some big ego that my writing is God's providence from the mountain, but it's about recognizing it. If I notice that I'm writing crap, I stop. My brain just stops the work until I rework it into something the brain is willing to deal with. So it's not so much a choice as I do B. When I'm writing shit, I'm writing nothing, because my brain has stopped me from going further.

 

[joeys-game]

Nobody starts out writing perfectly.
Writing shit at least means your trying.

Its kinda like learning to ski..
if you don't fall down you aint trying!

 

[Boxlicker101]

I think writing shit is better than writing nothing at all. Even if it is shit, there is still at least the outline of a story there and you can go back and edit it into something worthwhile.

 

[sweetnpetite]

double posts suck.

symbolism is cool though.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I asked because I just found a lovely notebook I'd bought years ago, intending to keep a journal. It was totally blank.

I know what had happened: I'd been so worried I'd write shit in that lovely, hardbound notebook that I didn't write anything at all, and I soon forgot about it. The notebook sat empty.

Now how I wish I'd put any sort of nonsense in it, no matter how bad and embarrassing. Anything is better than blank paper.

Could be the begining of a great novel:

The Empty Notebook