When Is Enough, Enough?

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Where's your line before you let your writing obsession kick your butt?

My attitude is: I aint making a Swiss watch, I'm making a half ass story.

 

[shutterpsb]

I like my stories to be at least close to grammatically correct and typo free, but half-ass is probably a good description of my style.

 

[lovecraft68]

It depends on what I'm working on.

If the story is more character driven and involved or has a darker more serious tone to it, I take longer and agonize over things more.

When I'm writing something that's more along the lines of just clean dirty fun....I kind of look at it if its not perfect and say "Well, they don't all have to be good"

Kind of a crap attitude I guess and I'm not saying I would turn out pure crap, but I just don't put the same effort into everything sometimes its just fun to cut loose and roll with it.

 

[SamScribble]

If you get on a plane in London and head off towards New Zealand, there comes a point at which, just by continuing forward, you are heading back whence you came. I think this often happens with writing. You can craft and tweak and polish only so far; and past this point you are starting to undo the good work that you have already done.

 

[legerdemer]

If you get on a plane in London and head off towards New Zealand, there comes a point at which, just by continuing forward, you are heading back whence you came. I think this often happens with writing. You can craft and tweak and polish only so far; and past this point you are starting to undo the good work that you have already done.

So nicely phrased and very apt.

 

[tamgreen]

"Writing obsession" has only ever been a positive thing in my life. I might not be writing Literature with a capital "L", but I still use my whole ass. However, I don't spend a lot of time polishing and perfecting. When I finish writing a story, I give it a quick gloss for minor edits and let it be. The best writing IMHO is spontaneous and has natural flow.

 

[49greg]

"Writing obsession" has only ever been a positive thing in my life. I might not be writing Literature with a capital "L", but I still use my whole ass. However, I don't spend a lot of time polishing and perfecting. When I finish writing a story, I give it a quick gloss for minor edits and let it be. The best writing IMHO is spontaneous and has natural flow.

One of my highest scoring stories was done on the spur of the moment and finished in just a day and a half. I did go over it looking for typos and again just before I hit "submit", and yes, as usual there's some that got through.

I'm not saying that I am in favor of rushing a story through and not being meticulous about checking it over, but it was a fun and stress free process. I think I was inspired, but I don't know what by. The story took hold of me and I went with it. I wish it happened more often.

 

[SamScribble]

One of my highest scoring stories was done on the spur of the moment and finished in just a day and a half. I did go over it looking for typos and again just before I hit "submit", and yes, as usual there's some that got through.

I'm not saying that I am in favor of rushing a story through and not being meticulous about checking it over, but it was a fun and stress free process. I think I was inspired, but I don't know what by. The story took hold of me and I went with it. I wish it happened more often.

Lately, I've been reading the biographies of several poets. One of the things that strikes me is how many 'great' poems were written in half an hour and how many took ten, twenty, thirty years to complete. What worries me is the fact that if I start writing a new poem today I could well be dead before I finish it.

 

[49greg]

Lately, I've been reading the biographies of several poets. One of the things that strikes me is how many 'great' poems were written in half an hour and how many took ten, twenty, thirty years to complete. What worries me is the fact that if I start writing a new poem today I could well be dead before I finish it.

There was a period of a few years in the seventies when I wrote a lot of poems. Most of mine rhymed, except for the Haiku, and some were pretty long. They would come to me at any time, just suddenly I was thinking of poems and zap there they were.

Most from things I'd seen or experienced. Now I'm not saying they were good, but they were fun. Then I met a girl and didn't have time to do them. I tried to start up several times since, but with sporadic success. I wonder what I was eating, reading, or doing back then that got me going.

I tried posting a few of my old ones here, but not many views and hardly any votes. I suppose if I had some erotic ones it would be better.

 

[SamScribble]

I tried posting a few of my old ones here, but not many views and hardly any votes. I suppose if I had some erotic ones it would be better.

I only have one poem posted (www.literotica.com/p/no-need-to-rush) and, yes, after more than two years, it doesn't have that many views. It does have a pretty respectable score though.