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rockinlibrarian

Why I Can't Write Fiction Anymore (or why it's currently not working at least)

Mar 19, 2016 10:33

I'm sure I've mentioned that the reason I actually started WRITING stories as a child (instead of just playing make-believe-- I was plenty enough good at THAT sort of storytelling without any other prompting) was that I kept having awesome narrative dreams that needed to be written down and shared. In my teen years I actually came up with tons of ( Read more... )

dreams, writing

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ext_1330007 March 20 2016, 01:14:52 UTC

I have feels about this post and several others of yours, and I also can't write lately, fiction or otherwise, but I'd like to try really hard to write you a letter because just today I experienced something similar ( ... )

rockinlibrarian March 20 2016, 13:28:45 UTC

:/ I relate to this. I also say, How am I better than this but you're not? YOUR inner critic needs to learn to shut up for awhile, too!

WE CAN DO IT. THEORETICALLY. IF WE SOMEHOW MANAGE TO GET IN THE RIGHT MINDSET.

ext_1330007 March 21 2016, 13:55:21 UTC

Just yesterday I started a new painting and felt that amazing rush of paint to canvas again, but then the chippery in my brain began and I started getting lots of feels. That's when I realized... wow, this really IS great therapy. Because if it stirs the feels pot and makes me think about and confront things I wouldn't otherwise confront - along with it also being self-expression - it's therapy. And somehow realizing that made creating feel not necessarily less difficult, but a lot more important. At least one of the many voices - the "art is inconsequential, you're wasting money on trash, go do something of actual value etc" one - quieted down. And hey, one down is better than nothing ( ... )

Kim Aippersbach here anonymous March 30 2016, 07:36:56 UTC

Forget the Terrigen Mist and the Celtic Ramadan (which-why the heck not? I can see a lot of cool possibilities in the Druid/Djinn pairing!)(also, spring cleaning by vacuuming up evil spirits is brilliant! (and fits in quite terrifyingly with a nightmare I once had about all the spiders I've vacuumed up still being alive inside the vacuum cleaner-shudder))-I want to know about the pet store. Why did they need the pets so badly? (Maybe you could write that scene and find out for me ( ... )