what is the worst thing about writing?

[cacian]

for me it is the following:

''not being able to experience the story in real life and meet the characters because if you did you would not be able to write the way you do''.


how about you?

[Volya]

When you've been really getting into a story you're writing, then being unable to keep the flow going and finish the story well.

[free]

Most of my stories are inspired either by some nice emotional experience or taken out of my dreams. My problem is that I have none of them now.

[Delta40]

Most of my stories are inspired either by some nice emotional experience or taken out of my dreams. My problem is that I have none of them now.

what? nice emotional experiences or dreams?

[osho]

The end of dream or imagination is fatal. I simply cannot conceive of the moment I will fail to imagine. Both dream and imagination have given vitality or in fact these two stuffs are enabling me to feel the thrill of life and once they are over life will be a burden. Life has a meaning now. I live for myself and for my own people and I value their presence. Life is not lived singly or becomes unlivable. The way a character in the Road novel. Everywhere nothing to see of life and vitality

[free]

what? nice emotional experiences or dreams?

Neither nice inspiring experiences nor nice dreams as it used to be. I used to dream the entire story. It was wonderful and I thank my dreams for it. But, something has changed, my dreams are not on that level of communication with me anymore. I wonder why... :)

[Lokasenna]

Ever read George Orwell's Why I Write?

I write, not because I want to, but because I'm driven to write. In many ways, it's quite a painful experience for me - I'm a literary masochist.

[The Kid]

I hate the way schools cheapen writing. Of course it is primarily a form of communication, so that's how they teach it. But then there is the artistic aspect. The bureaucratic school system finds a way to destroy any art form. Even when they do manage to treat the art of writing properly, I can't enjoy it because I already mentally associate it with the school's incompetence.

[cacian]

Ever read George Orwell's Why I Write?

I write, not because I want to, but because I'm driven to write. In many ways, it's quite a painful experience for me - I'm a literary masochist.

I have yet to read it.
I am surprised it is a painful experience. I would have thought it the opposite. I am guessing reading is not?
the expression 'literary masochist' kind of unsettles me a bit :)

[cacian]

I hate the way schools cheapen writing. Of course it is primarily a form of communication, so that's how they teach it. But then there is the artistic aspect. The bureaucratic school system finds a way to destroy any art form. Even when they do manage to treat the art of writing properly, I can't enjoy it because I already mentally associate it with the school's incompetence.

school is not a place to write. it is anything but inspiring. I think one writes better when one is not under pressure. I agree with out on this one.

[synodbio]

The time I hate most as a writer is when I get a good idea that just can’t wait. It is like I get tied to and must let the damned thing pull me all over "creation" until I finally cut my way free by getting it all out of my system and onto paper.

[Delta40]

Sometimes people write better under pressure

[cacian]

Sometimes people write better under pressure

the question is do we like or do you like to write when you are told what to write?
I personally cannot. I am better at writing at my own want.

[Lokasenna]

I have yet to read it.
I am surprised it is a painful experience. I would have thought it the opposite. I am guessing reading is not?
the expression 'literary masochist' kind of unsettles me a bit :)

Reading is a pleasure (unless Joyce is involved somewhere), but I think a bit of pain in writing is a good thing. Pain is creative energy - the channeling of artistic frustration into artistic production. Try it sometime, you might find it refreshing!

[cacian]

Reading is a pleasure (unless Joyce is involved somewhere), but I think a bit of pain in writing is a good thing. Pain is creative energy - the channeling of artistic frustration into artistic production. Try it sometime, you might find it refreshing!

refreshing!!
I am to admit I cannot pain myself to writing for the only reason that I use writing as a therapy inducing karma. I write because I enjoy words more then ideas.
for example I like poetry that talks rather then laments. Talking is fun and lamenting is rather tedious.
poetry that engages in telling me things i already know and see and also experience myself on a daily with differently worded is I find distracting. I enjoy direct speech with a twist. something we humans in real life do not do god knows why.
I take writing unseriously and words just as pieces of legos I put together, not willy nilly as many would say, to look at rather then I understand. such is my mind. I enjoy aesthetic poetry. shape and sound is more gratifying to me then ultimately marking meaning with a deep wound at the end of it.
literature means to lighten up and not induce heroic feelings and damage already exisiting goods.
the human form crys out for change but heroism induced literature does not. it keeps on the momentum of hurt ongoing. I see no point in perpetuating what was/is. one needs to move on.
I feel rationality and writing must accord.
anyhow I understand you have different motives in literature and that I do understand and duly respect too. :)

[free]

When you've been really getting into a story you're writing, then being unable to keep the flow going and finish the story well.

I have this problem, too. I think one of the ways to solve it is to find a partner and write the same story together. Only, it is not so easy to make someone else interested enough to join. :)

[cacian]

I have this problem, too. I think one of the ways to solve it is to find a partner and write the same story together. Only, it is not so easy to make someone else interested enough to join. :)

easy. imagine you are with a friend and make up it as you go along. writing has many assets that are still to be explored. :)

[free]

easy. imagine you are with a friend and make up it as you go along. writing has many assets that are still to be explored. :)

Thank you. I've never thought of it. I'll certainly try. :)

[cacian]

Thank you. I've never thought of it. I'll certainly try. :)

hey not at all. :)