writing should be fun
One of my friends on the Cloud posted this morning that writing
should be fun and I realised that I'd forgotten this. I've been so
caught up in the need to get published and write 1000 words a day
and all the other silly rules people try and impose that I'd lost
sight of what I was doing it for.
Here's why I write: for those moments when I can incorporate characters from my past into a novel and make myself laugh out loud in the process. When I'm walking in the dogs and a plot twist comes into my head and I have to run home and write it down. And when I can spend half the morning having online discussions with you guys.
So what makes it fun for you?
Here's why I write: for those moments when I can incorporate characters from my past into a novel and make myself laugh out loud in the process. When I'm walking in the dogs and a plot twist comes into my head and I have to run home and write it down. And when I can spend half the morning having online discussions with you guys.
So what makes it fun for you?
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If it wasn't fun, I'd do something else.
I think Weens comment is highly relevant.
It's also fun when I'm caught up in what I'm writing to the extent of being unable to think about little else. (However, I must add that this stage most definitely isn't fun for my husband, who ends up talking to someone who isn't listening.) It's fun when ideas pop into my mind at all hours of the day and night. I think of them as lightbulb moments.
And it's fun when I'm writing fiction and thinking out a scene before writing it. I listen to my characters speaking to each other - sometimes it seems as though they're having a conversation without any input from me, and that's when it gets really interesting.
And with non-fiction, it's fun when I get an idea for a new book and start mapping it out in my mind, considering the topics to include and those to exclude. I continue to do this until I begin to picture the book as a physical object, even though it hasn't even been written at that stage. It becomes real to me, and that's always a thrill.
Oh, and it's also fun when I hear something that I think would work well in a novel - a comment, or an experience. I mentally stash it away.
I think it all should be fun. If it isn't then why do it. We may make some money from it, but the odds are against it making us rich.
I also don't expect to get published, it's the thrill of the chase that keeps me going. It's like having a crush on a girl, elusive but possibly attainable (how romantic!) Then the thrill of an agent actually wanting to read your full MS, followed by the final rejection e-mail. But am I downhearted? Not a bit of it. (Getting lost up my own backside now, but it's FUN!)
Mac
I like writing stuff that makes me laugh. Sometimes I write something and I sit back and think ''god I'm clever''. That doesn't happen very often though, but still it is enjoyable to try and write stuff that you enjoy reading back to yourself.
My discipline of writing is to do it when the words arrive in your mind, filter through to your brain and work their way along the nerves to the ends of your fingers and your instincts say 'WRITE IT DOWN NOW!'
:O)
The best bit for me, which makes it fun, is escaping into an imaginary world as one of my characters. It's a lovely way of escaping reality and expressing ourselves.
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