do you personalise your writing?

[cacian]

do you see yourself in every story or poem you write? or is it totally fictional?

[cafolini]

If I write it, what do you expect?

[hannah_arendt]

Hello

I think that leave a part of me although I don`t like it at all.

[Adolescent09]

If art is created by an artist and the art would not exist without the artist, how can the art not have some part of the artist in it?

Talk about a tongue twister!

[hillwalker]

Not so much a tongue-twister as another pointless cacian question,

H

[Adolescent09]

Not so much a tongue-twister as another pointless cacian question,

H

Have you ever posted something positive on this forum? If you hate everyone/everything on this forum so much you can always leave, you know. I can never understand why people like you and calfolini are always negative about virtually everything except towards certain forum members who you agree with/compliment regardless of whatever they post. It's got me wondering if you're both the same person using different forum accounts.

[cafolini]

Here it goes. For you: something positive. ROFLMAO

[Silas Thorne]

Have you ever posted something positive on this forum? If you hate everyone/everything on this forum so much you can always leave, you know. I can never understand why people like you and calfolini are always negative about virtually everything except towards certain forum members who you agree with/compliment regardless of whatever they post. It's got me wondering if you're both the same person using different forum accounts.

I don't think you quite understand, Adolescent09. hillwalker is a treasure, and he gives a lot of terrific feedback to writers at all stages. He is keeping this whole place honest. You do not always have to agree with his opinion, and he can be a tough critic sometimes, but he keeps this place real, he thinks carefully about other people's work (often a whole lot more than the people originally posting it! :0) and gives his feedback without holding back too much. Without hillwalker and other people like him here on this forum, you'd be stuck with people who nod their heads and say 'wow,' no matter what crap people write.
cafolini I really don't know so well to give an opinion on. But he is also quite forthright with his own opinions, and does give positive comments when he likes something. Still, he does comment. Some people don't comment at all.

[Lokasenna]

If something is a product of the self, then it must follow that some element of the self is present in the product. Now I'm all for the whole Roland-Barthes-death-of-the-author malarky - a major necessity for me given that 99% of the literature I work with is anonymous - but I imagine it would only be possible to write a non-personalised text if you at no point engaged your brain in the process of writing it. Which, one would expect, would make it a very poor piece of work.

[hannah_arendt]

Have you ever posted something positive on this forum? If you hate everyone/everything on this forum so much you can always leave, you know. I can never understand why people like you and calfolini are always negative about virtually everything except towards certain forum members who you agree with/compliment regardless of whatever they post. It's got me wondering if you're both the same person using different forum accounts.

Hillwalker is treasure of this forum. Everyone has the right to gie his/ her opinion here. If you don`t like, you don`t have to be here too. I don`t think that Phil is always negative. He helped me many times here and I am gratefull for it.

If something is a product of the self, then it must follow that some element of the self is present in the product. Now I'm all for the whole Roland-Barthes-death-of-the-author malarky - a major necessity for me given that 99% of the literature I work with is anonymous - but I imagine it would only be possible to write a non-personalised text if you at no point engaged your brain in the process of writing it. Which, one would expect, would make it a very poor piece of work.

What do you think about Barthes? Have you read "Mythologies"?

[cacian]

If I write it, what do you expect?

i expect a mixture or a separation. one is to apply fiction its real meaning and if the write is involved with it then where is the meaning gone?

Hello

I think that leave a part of me although I don`t like it at all.

why not? if you do not like it why do it?

If art is created by an artist and the art would not exist without the artist, how can the art not have some part of the artist in it?

Talk about a tongue twister!

hehe tongue twister Chinese whisper more like !
i guess if one is to be abtract in art then abstract ideas and not of one's own is what is required non? i often write away from my own feelings because abstract iwhat i am after. i think fictional i write fictional i think personal then i write personal. detachement is involved when is abstract is what is wanted.
only speculating of course but i am aware of it when i write.

[hannah_arendt]

why not? if you do not like it why do it?



hehe tongue twister Chinese whisper more like !
i guess if one is to be abtract in art then abstract ideas and not of one's own is what is required non? i often write away from my own feelings because abstract iwhat i am after. i think fictional i write fictional i think personal then i write personal. detachement is involved when is abstract is what is wanted.
only speculating of course but i am aware of it when i write.

Well, I don`t bother it. Most people don`t know that it`s about me for example. I don`t like talking about myself directly. When I was younger, writing was a kind of therapy for me.

[Grit]

Adolescent,

For those of us that write prose on a consistent basis and look for feedback (there's a small group on this forum) Hillwalker is the only reason we keep coming back. He gives excellent critiques and interacts with honesty.

Very few people actually comment on stories here, and some people look to just rip things apart leaving nothing to be gained from the experience. Hillwalker rips people apart when they deserve it. The guy puts hours in to read newbie stories and type up comprehensive reviews, something few people are willing or generous enough to do.

This question is inane. The wording personalize doesn't make sense in context. Everything written by any person is personalized. Hardly a ground breaking topic.

[cacian]

Well, I don`t bother it. Most people don`t know that it`s about me for example. I don`t like talking about myself directly. When I was younger, writing was a kind of therapy for me.

I see what you mean writing is therapy but I was wondering would it work better if you had written you in a better light as to correct what went wrong. I am a great believer in changing words for the better. what I mean is if I had a nasty experience say in the past I would incorporate it in the story but improving it rather then telling it as it happened. Positive writing is also therapy. that way my story is totally fictional.

[hannah_arendt]

I see what you mean writing is therapy but I was wondering would it work better if you had written you in a better light as to correct what went wrong. I am a great believer in changing words for the better. what I mean is if I had a nasty experience say in the past I would incorporate it in the story but improving it rather then telling it as it happened. Positive writing is also therapy. that way my story is totally fictional.

According my husband I should write in more positive way although I don`t find my writing as pesimistic. Of course looking at your text after some times is always very good. I did it many times. However you have to have times for it.