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The Hardships of Writing a Story

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When I first attempted to write a story was probably in Preschool, so so so many years ago, I didn't think much, but I like it. I remember running up to my Dad, waving the paper around while running towards him as he came to pick me up.

I have not changed so much since that time. When I write, I'd like it to be for the sole purpose that I like it. I really don't like writing essays, prompts, or anything like that, but for the sake of animals, I am able to sick in until the end. Wish me luck on that!

To tell the truth, I like writing because it is the only time I cam create a world of my own liking, instead of facing the hard unfair life of this reality I live twenty-four seven. When I first became interested in writing was when I became interested in reading. Reading and writing came to me when I was in my ninth year of school, and now, even looking back at the stuff I wrote then, it seems I did better then than now sometimes.

Reading is not only for education purposes, but also for entertainment, and also an escape from reality. For just a while, you're able to lose yourself in another world, where most of the time, you can predict what's going to happen, and sometimes it ends in a happy ending, one that most days don't end like.

But then, you'll have to draw yourself away from that world and come back to your own.

That's how it is for me as a writer also. I want to create a world where I can get lost in. And another added that most readers don't get to experience, is being able to direct the story the way they want it to go.

I realize though, that writing doesn't come from what you're thinking consciously. It's that back thinking voice unconsciously working that tells you what your hands to record. Many times, I'm drawn into my story, and my hands just fly over the keyboard/paper.

Other times, I'll think too hard and I cannot come up with anything.

But the time when I have my headphones blasting so loud, it's hard to really think of what I want to write, that's when my unconscious thinking comes out.

It's really hard though, to make that side come out, especially when I want to be involved in what I write. I guess that's what's so hard for writing for me. I like to be involved, but, that's not when I write the best....I wonder if that makes sense....
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  1. Buh4Bee's Avatar
    I really enjoyed this blog entry. I think your perspective on writing is spot on!
  2. Beautifull's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by jersea
    I really enjoyed this blog entry. I think your perspective on writing is spot on!
    Thanks!
  3. Maximilianus's Avatar
    I've had similar mythical experiences with my headphones, so I understand exactly how you feel (especially now that I have this new set that delivers a superb sound quality because they are connected to the USB port, which gives a clearer sound although the slightest volume is so loud that one has to be wary of ear damage ).

    Two hints:
    1. The creative impulse is a visitor. Can't be commanded. All you can do is wait until it knocks on your door, and then open so it comes in
    2. Beware of the headphones' volume. One day you will want to use your ears



  4. Beautifull's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Maximilianus
    I've had similar mythical experiences with my headphones, so I understand exactly how you feel (especially now that I have this new set that delivers a superb sound quality because they are connected to the USB port, which gives a clearer sound although the slightest volume is so loud that one has to be wary of ear damage ).

    Two hints:
    1. The creative impulse is a visitor. Can't be commanded. All you can do is wait until it knocks on your door, and then open so it comes in
    2. Beware of the headphones' volume. One day you will want to use your ears



    Haha. Yeah...those hints are soo true. My ears were bruised internally and externally afterwards! lol. And yes, that visitor sometimes only comes once to a person in their whole life. I thank God that it has visited me more than once.
  5. Maximilianus's Avatar
    Escape reality... I wish I could do it for good... permanently. Nothing turned out as expected, like I have too little left to do here. There should be a better place.
  6. breathtest's Avatar
    a lot of the time i feel the same way when i'm writing. if i think too much and make too much of a conscious effort then i'll keep making mistakes and the writing won't go as well, whereas if i just let it happen, it's much easier and much more natural.

    beautifull your blog entry makes perfect sense to me. i'm glad you've posted it.

    everybody needs to escape reality sometimes, and occasionally it is very hard to come back into the real world, if you know what i mean.
  7. Beautifull's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Maximilianus
    Escape reality... I wish I could do it for good... permanently. Nothing turned out as expected, like I have too little left to do here. There should be a better place.
    Life's unfair, and nothing never turns out the way you expect. That's why there's something made up as back-up plans. haha. And the ones that actually work, are always in stories.
  8. Beautifull's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by breathtest
    a lot of the time i feel the same way when i'm writing. if i think too much and make too much of a conscious effort then i'll keep making mistakes and the writing won't go as well, whereas if i just let it happen, it's much easier and much more natural.

    beautifull your blog entry makes perfect sense to me. i'm glad you've posted it.

    everybody needs to escape reality sometimes, and occasionally it is very hard to come back into the real world, if you know what i mean.
    I thank you much BT. And yes, it's frustrating when your conscious effort isn't enough. But that's what writers like to call Writer's Block.

    And I'm really glad my entry makes sense. Most of the time, I think I go crazy and I'm the only one feeling the way I do. But then when I say it, everyone's like, yeah that happens to me too. Then I worry for no reason. But that's me. Ms. Worry-a-lot.

    Yes. I think it's not hard at all losing yourself in another world, it;s the coming back that d the hardest.
  9. Maximilianus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Beautifull
    Life's unfair, and nothing never turns out the way you expect. That's why there's something made up as back-up plans. haha. And the ones that actually work, are always in stories.
    It must be so, considering no real backup plans seem to be working anymore I should find me a way to go live inside a story
  10. Beautifull's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Maximilianus
    It must be so, considering no real backup plans seem to be working anymore I should find me a way to go live inside a story

    Soon, with this kind of technology progression in this time, that may become a reality.Haha.
    But with back up plans not working, we people actually wing it most of the time.