Is writing is a dull activity?

[osho]

Writing is a dull activity and less rewarding in this world of modernity. We have lots of things to do, cinema, TV, the internet, a variety of sports, travelling, socializing and the like. When i write i have to corner myself and distance msyself from the rest of the world and pass lots of times with old and out of date worlds. It is not a lively activity. The way farmers work on green farms' and workers with their tools. Imagine a sculptor works with his stone and carve out beautiful idols or armymen with their wopeans but writers siting idly in a stuffy and suffocated room idling with bulky books.



This is an opinion and this is exclusively my personal opinion. You might have a different opinion.

[islandclimber]

Writing is likely the least dull of activities. We have that beautiful opportunity to reinvent the real. The imagination, the intellect, these are splendid places to reside. Therefore, I'm not really sure what you're getting at with this statement. The question seems kind of superfluous. If we thought writing dull, why would we write? The idea that this would be the case is somewhat silly...

On a side note... Are you and Cacian related perchance? :D

[osho]

Writing is likely the least dull of activities. We have that beautiful opportunity to reinvent the real. The imagination, the intellect, these are splendid places to reside. Therefore, I'm not really sure what you're getting at with this statement. The question seems kind of superfluous. If we thought writing dull, why would we write? The idea that this would be the case is somewhat silly...

On a side note... Are you and Cacian related perchance? :D

We are on a friendly level and nothing more and nothing less . Tell me what got you to assume that? It is just your imagination or something more?

I said what i said is my personal opinion and not necessarily yours' and it is not necessary to keep everybody in the same mold. Some write when they have nothing to do under the sun and writing just becoemss a sort of passtime and nothing more. I just made a comparison and when compared with the jobs of a farmer it is less vital whether you agree or disagree.

[cacian]

I consider writing as a natural process. We naturally write as we naturally talk and think. An activity requires effort time and sacrifice. Writing should not.
To write is to exhale and to exhale is to inhale. This is how writing should establish itself if it is not then we are definitely doing something wrong.

[osho]

I consider writing as a natural process. We naturally write as we naturally talk and think. An activity requires effort time and sacrifice. Writing should not.
To write is to exhale and to exhale is to inhale. This is how writing should establish itself if it is not then we are definitely doing something wrong.

Cacain i like your point and in fact i take writing the way you do and it is exactly like exhalation and inhalation. I like the way you do and i read every post you do write instantly and spontensouly. The way you raise any issue and write on any topics.

Literature flows like cascades through hills and montains and valleys.

[Charles Darnay]

if writing (and in this case I mean the writing of poems, stories &c.) is not something you feel you need to do - if you are not driven by it - don't do it. Having to force yourself to write in the face of TV, the Internet &c. will not get you anywhere.

[stlukesguild]

I would think that for the majority of the populace there have always been more "exciting" things to do than writing or reading. I am certain you have little or no experience with farming or sculpture/art considering your Romantic notion of how "exciting" these endeavors must be in contrast to writing. Ultimately, as Charles suggests, if you are not passionate about reading and writing... why waste your time?

[jayat]

It's very exciting, definitely. And frustrating if you don't achieve what you expected to. So it is not a dull activity to me, aswering straightly. The few moments I've written in my live I enjoyed like a kid of eleven with a new couple of shoes (a kid from the late eighties and bred in a middle-low class area). Then I was disappointed to see how incoherent and weak everything sounded. And I didn't get back to write for months. But that wasn't the question.

[Whosis]

My opinion differs. I find it is enjoyable to create something new, often likened to having a child. I think it remains lively in the way that research is sometimes necessary for the writing.

[Dreamwoven]

Word processing has made writing much easier. I'm not sure I could go back to paper and pen, though I do know that many novelists, especially older ones, do write longhand pen and paper.