Updates: Write something
I've had a number of emails from people worried that my most recent post of Beautiful Losers was the last. It's not. I promised you an ending - a proper one, and you will get it. But not for a little while. I will post the next chapter on the weekend.
It's the beginning of a new semester for me, and things are hectic.
Besides that, I am, for the first time in my life, writing with someone else. This was something I had grave doubts whether I could ever do. But it seems I can, and it's teaching me a great deal: hopefully to be a better writer, to get my ego out of the story, to find a balance between caring about my characters and being taken over by them.
It is also helping me understand the way other writers think and this is illuminating, because it is a process I've never had the honour to be privy to. My father was a writer, but he was very private about it. It has not been a matter of thinking, 'Wow, they do it just like I do.' In fact, they don't. They have a totally different process. I've always thought I didn't plan enough before embarking on a story, but now I'm wondering if I plan to much.
It may all go completely wrong tomorrow. And even if it does, I've come away from the experience much richer.
One thing it has underlined for me is that writing is a truly glorious pastime. If you read me, please write. It doesn't matter what you write; just write something, today. Language is the only tool I use proficiently and, I have come to realize that I adore watching other people use it, too.
So, if you don't write already, please do. Write something.
hello.
i don't write. i wish that i could, but i have no idea how to get the ideas in my head onto paper (or whatever). i love reading and read everything. erotica is only a recent discovery (yay internet) but i've been composing erotic stories in my head for years.
thank you for all that you do; for exposing yourself this way. it's enlightening, educational and i love it.
~L~
I've been writing snippets today but will finish them later when it's dark and they muse is more willing to come out and play. I don't plan anything I have bursts of creativity and I start writing and don't stop until I am finished, then I might edit something or not. Or it sits there half written and never finished. And I keep telling myself I need to plan my writing more. Interesting the way we all approach writing huh? x
Writing is my form of therapy, I have found early on in life. When I find it hard to deal with extreme emotion, I just write it out and I feel a lot better. Of course, as one gets older and has more and more responsibilities, taking the time to do some writing becomes more difficult, but this time has to be taken. I also love the written word, the ideas, the creativity, the sharing and the structure. I can't imagine myself without a book or a pen and a journal at hand. I am glad to say that reading and writing are my biggest obsessions.
I write because I cannot not write. I began writing stories when I was seven years old -- I'd've begun earlier, but I didn't have enough of a handle on the mechanics, until then. I don't think there's been a day, since, in which I have not written -- and that's a fair number of years ...
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