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Tell me all about it, dear...
Bozoette Mary - 2010-10-27 01:33:30
It's a deal, babe.
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beanie - 2010-10-27 02:10:12
I agree with the two of you!
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dichroic - 2010-10-27 06:15:04
I think some of us just *aren't* fiction writers. I'm not: my sum fiction output consists of a few fanfic vignettes, two short-ish fics with actual plots, and one story that I like but that has a really weak ending. Oh, and one awful story written for English class. That's lifetime output. Compare that to all the poems and nearly a decade of blogging. Ask me for an essay and I'll tell you to come back in half an hour; fiction, not so much. Without the past horrors you have, I don't end up gibbering fetally; it's more like repeatedly dipping a bucket into a well that's got no water.
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Stephanie - 2010-10-27 09:37:11
"What might have been" is a don't go there place for me, too.
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Anna - 2010-10-27 10:24:02
I've had that experience too - wrote myself into a place of despair it took me an age to recover from. Last year I wrote about my American trip (still haven't read it, let alone edited it into shape). This year I HAD been thinking I could just let it flow and see what happens, but I'm increasingly thinking it's not for me. Love love love xx
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Jim - 2010-10-27 16:58:43
Yeah, I know what you mean. I gave it a try a few years back and had to surrender.
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terri t - 2010-10-27 19:25:56
I've thought about doing it but usually missed the start....and then it sounds too much like making writing a JOB and not a desire. I still haven't finished the "book" I wrote on my blog a few years ago...so if I can't finish that, I doubt I can write anything new...
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Kathy - 2010-10-28 15:02:37
I'm trying it for the first time this year. Are you sure you don't want to join me? We can laugh about our failures together!
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Poolie - 2010-10-28 16:05:51
I did it once, and I realized how much I really DO want to write - and how much a writing community would mean to me. But I live here in San Diego, a veritable cultural wasteland. I worked with a coach a few years ago, and it was great. I actually wrote some decent stuff. I tried to apply the "group process" to the Nano thing, and the people I met at a "write-up" were all so very strange. Women in long denim skirts who should have cut their hair eons ago....surrounded by troll dolls for good luck....writing about men in kilts or subterranean monsters...or both. That kind of thing. I was most definitely a fish out of water. I first said no to doing it this year, but some gentle reflection has led me to the understanding that it might be good for me. I know that writing brings out the best and the worst in ourselves. The balance of darkness and light. I am still on the fence, but I might try again. I'll know more on Monday. LOL!
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