What do you want?

[shereads]

What do you want from your writing? Have you achieved it, or come close?

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

What do you want from your writing? Have you achieved it, or come close?

Why, to destroy the world of course. And I'm getting closer to that goal everyday.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I want to impress My Girl.

That's it.

 

[McKenna]

What do you want from your writing? Have you achieved it, or come close?

I haven't yet achieved what I want from my fiction writing in the bigger sense, but I'm getting close. (I'd like to publish a novel, preferably more than one.) Non-fiction is work; as long as I'm getting paid, I'm achieving what I want.

What about you Sher? I know you've said you don't submit stories because you write copy in your everyday life, so... have you achieved what you want from your writing? Fiction, and non-fiction?

 

[McKenna]

oops

 

[Boota]

I want to make my entire living from it so I can quit punching time clocks. Well, writing and music. I don't mind working at that, too.

 

[neonlyte]

Mostly to understand myself, then to entertain.

Since I've posted a piece on the Story Discussion Circle for critique, I guess I should promote it. The piece is close to where I want to be, in writing terms.

You can read it here
Neon

 

[sincerely_helene]

I would love to be able step outside my own head more often.

I start out trying to appeal to a wide audience, but slowly fall back into the old routine of "no, this is how I would want it." This habit causes me to eventually reflect upon the first few paragraphs, or even chapters, and leave things unfinished in frusteration.

I often find myself in a tangled mess of pages worth of irrelvant rambling, having afforded so much attention to minor details and emotions that are normally not so important to the vast majority of readers. This kind of 'subconcious selfishness' is particularly annoying when I'm trying to write an erotic BDSM piece. I end up with 10 pages of fore-play and self-analyzation, all the while not even realizing that my characters haven't engaged in any sort of physical sexual interaction.

I now have composed 5 short stories, and only one is complete... and even with that one, my general feedback seems to be, "Wow. Great story. Can't wait for the next chapter!" I feel pretty embarassed when I'm forced to respond with "Hey, I AM done." I always picture a bunch of naked men glaring angrily at me with their cocks in hand.

 

[Belegon]

I have no idea what I really want from my writing. Except to do it for a living, which I basically consider a pipe dream...

For now, I am just enjoying making other people react to it...

 

[English Lady]

I think that right now I am getting what I want from my writing. I enjoy writing it, like the feedback and love the challenge of making my work the best it can be.

I may change my goal somepoint in the futurer, but for now, I'm happy.

 

[oggbashan]

I just want to get it out of my head and posted.

Then I can forget it and move on.

But my muses keep insisting I write more. I do, to get them out of my head. Then they think up something else...

They are very demanding ladies and I'm outnumbered. They are goddesses as well. I haven't a hope of avoiding their demands.

Og

 

[Guest]

writing, for me, is a bit cathartic.
im enjoying the fact that i can write smut and post it. writing costs nothing to do and is a creative outlet for me. if i could make a living doing this, i would but... keeping level headed...ill just stick to this forum for now.
(secretly hoping to write the worlds most famous book of humor--hey, its a dream)

 

[impressive]

For now, I am just enjoying making other people react to it...

Yup. Me, too. I have no aspirations to be paid for my efforts or published in print.

I just have all these bottled up fantasies and experiences in my head that are screaming to be shared. I enjoy them -- and being a "mutual person," I want others to enjoy them, too.

Of course, the feedback is energizing -- but even if there were no feedback mechanisms on Lit, I'd still write/publish here.

 

[impressive]

writing, for me, is a bit cathartic.
<snip>
... and is a creative outlet for me.

Interesting you should mention that. The worst time in my life -- when depression was overwhelming -- was when I had no creative outlet. It is therapeutic to create (and share).

 

[Guest]

Writing erotica is simply a form of experimentation for me. It has improved my writing considerably. But it has been distracting me from the Novel I have packed in my head. That is going to have to be finished soon.

Have I accomplished what I set out to do with it? Well I have posted in most of the catagories and been fairly well accepted. Actually I recieved some private feedback from Dr. Mabeuse on my Halloween story that blew my mind.

"Great story, Dran. Good writing structure. Most impressive. You got my five."

After I replied with a thank you, he went into a little more detail. I was stunned. After that, the rest of the voting just doesn't matter much.

So, yes, I have accomplished what I set out to with it. Gave some people some entertainment, and saw that my writing was indeed worth reading.

Now I'm gonna get back to the novel and see what happens with it.

 

[rgraham666]

On thinking about it, I want a lot from my writing.

It is both therapeutic and cathartic. Therapeutic because the feedback I get is gradually convincing me that I can do something right. And cathartic because my imagination never stops and I need to let the energy created out.

It's also a way for me to get ideas I have out there so other people can be affected by them.

And a couple of people I know in the publishing business think my stuff is good enough to publish, so at least making a little money from writing is now amongst the things I want.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I've always been a very visual person and writing is a way to express how I see things. Writing smut was a challenge, but one that helped me to progress as a writer.

As vella said, humor is a great thing to write and if you can do it and make someone laugh or smile at your own twisted sense of humor, all the better.

and yes, it is theraputic, one of the best things for depressives. I only hope to get better(at writing) from here on, not that I think I can make a living from it, but that I can understand living from it.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

When I do it right, it feels like singing.

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: What do you want?

I haven't yet achieved what I want from my fiction writing in the bigger sense, but I'm getting close. (I'd like to publish a novel, preferably more than one.) Non-fiction is work; as long as I'm getting paid, I'm achieving what I want.

What about you Sher? I know you've said you don't submit stories because you write copy in your everyday life, so... have you achieved what you want from your writing? Fiction, and non-fiction?

Absolutely! All I ever hoped to achieve with my writing was to help, in some small way, to support America's concrete manufacturers. I've succeeded beyond my expectations.

That my work as a copywriter is also helping to rid Florida of its remaining wetland ecosystems (swamps) and promoting the value of faux Mediterranean estate homes in gated golf club communities, is the cherry on the sundae! Granted, there are an awful lot of golf club communities. But without them, where would we put America's growing number of wealthy, retirement-age Republicans?

There's still work to be done, and not just in Florida. I'm focusing on the third world now. Just completed Draft 2 of a brochure for new golf condos in the Caribbean, where undeveloped coastal wetlands are still a huge problem. The entire region is a vast petrie dish for malaria.

 

[shereads]

I always picture a bunch of naked men glaring angrily at me with their cocks in hand.

Hey, me too!

 

[shereads]

"Great story, Dran. Good writing structure. Most impressive. You got my five."

After I replied with a thank you, he went into a little more detail. I was stunned. After that, the rest of the voting just doesn't matter much.

Good. I hope this means you won't pull your stories.

 

[shereads]

On thinking about it, I want a lot from my writing.

It is both therapeutic and cathartic. Therapeutic because the feedback I get is gradually convincing me that I can do something right. And cathartic because my imagination never stops and I need to let the energy created out.

It's also a way for me to get ideas I have out there so other people can be affected by them.

And a couple of people I know in the publishing business think my stuff is good enough to publish, so at least making a little money from writing is now amongst the things I want.

I've always had a feeling that an autobiography of yours would blow us all away.

 

[Edward Teach]

What do you want from your writing? Have you achieved it, or come close?

I wanted to meet some women and have really hot sex with them.

I've met some women.

I've come close a few times.


Ed The Optimist

 

[McKenna]

Re: Re: Re: What do you want?

Absolutely! All I ever hoped to achieve with my writing was to help, in some small way, to support America's concrete manufacturers. I've succeeded beyond my expectations.

That my work as a copywriter is also helping to rid Florida of its remaining wetland ecosystems (swamps) and promoting the value of faux Mediterranean estate homes in gated golf club communities, is the cherry on the sundae! Granted, there are an awful lot of golf club communities. But without them, where would we put America's growing number of wealthy, retirement-age Republicans?

There's still work to be done, and not just in Florida. I'm focusing on the third world now. Just completed Draft 2 of a brochure for new golf condos in the Caribbean, where undeveloped coastal wetlands are still a huge problem. The entire region is a vast petrie dish for malaria.

You must be so proud!


You nut! (And I say that with affection!)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

When I do it right, it feels like singing.

---dr.M.

I'm like that after eating a York Peppermint Patty.