writing
- Pros of writing:
1. I love it. It’s the greatest feeling ever.
- obstacles:
1. inexperience & and lack of confidence.
2. finding the character’s voice: I recently found the protagonist’s voice in this fiction i’m writing. Once you find that out, you start to know her personality, and conjure up ideas of how she would handle situations in the plot. After all, every concept has already been used right?…the person is depressed, a serial killer, a romantic -what matters are the different experiences and emotions one writes about. Sure I say the character is dismal, self critical, and in a tense state of hypochondria, but how do I actually show that? It took me two months into the story to find it. I knew something was wrong. She certainly can’t be some what happy if she’s depressed, right? She’s not aware that she’s depressed in the story, therefore, the audience doesn’t either. A writer’s job is to show those behaviors, through the subtle use of language. By incorporating all the symptoms/behaviors of depression through the character’s framework, a writer discovers the process, difficult, sometimes failing. That’s the exhausting part about creative writing. It integrates a shit load of framework to account for. You have to be logical, analytical, creative, intuitive, emotional, and it helps to be neurotic, to be a good writer (or so i’ve read). A writer is good when they successfully evoke emotions in the reader, and to do so, those components need to all be considered in their writing.
3. In regards to Hemingway’s case, personally, I don’t foresee any suicidal attempts in my future, and i sure ass hell don’t want to be lonely. It’s just interesting to know that most brilliant writers end up leading a reclusive life. It’s like they want to preserve their talent, or soul, or whatever it is they’re trying to protect from the world. It fascinates me how that is, in a way i can sort of relate.
4. Delusional: Sometimes writing can have this effect over you where you can’t help but become immersed in the story, as if you’re the character herself. - I constantly remind myself that I’m writing a fiction, not a damn biography.
5. Taking risks…are you willing to take new risks as a writer?!
6. Fear of uncertainty
7. 50% therapeutic, 50% stressful… decisions, decisions..
interesting…
