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what do you mean i have to w r i t e to be a writer ? rude
I don't know what to do. I was going through old files on my computer and I found a bunch of stories from when I was still roleplaying. I've got documents that are 35K words or more, but I don't know what to do with them. There's a lot of context missing because I made a whole culture to go along with the characters and I'm not sure anyone else will find it interesting. But I just spent two hours today engrossed in a story I wrote over ten years ago and I kinda wish I could rewrite it.
born to write the beginning and ending, forced to write the middle part.
i want to design characters…
but i havent finished writing them yet…
To just do it,
even when the thoughts
form a barricade.
personally, unless i absolutely have tears in my eyes, stain the pages and have a full blown miserable crisis just like my character, I don't consider the scene to be sad.
That makes me feel a bit better about what I write, because its not *good writing* in any way. Its on-the-nose sometimes, a bit simplistic, too feel-y, and filled with dramatized character emotions. But people tell me, they felt so much while reading it, they cried, or laughed too hard, almost teared up, felt personally seen, smiled, blushed, were annoyed- they FELT. And for me, that is a reason enough to continue writing. It might not be perfect, good or even professional at all, but as long as it touched someone, I have a reason to improve. To continue. To write until it DOES become good, subtle and clever. Even if it takes forever. It brings joy to a couple of others. It brings me JOY. And that is good enough for now, I think.
your writing doesn’t have to be perfect. it just has to make someone feel something.