I personally have a fondness for bitchery - it's my inner gay man coming out. But online of course, it's better to behave because I don't know if people are going to get my sense of humor.
You ask if my writing comes effortlessly - and well, sometimes it does, mostly it does not. When the characters are in my head, talking, it's easy. I have found that early on in SGA it was much easier, and then as the writers failed to be consistent with their characters and the fandom grew huge and sometimes critical, my writing was a lot more difficult.
Most often, writing is hard for me. And I have completion issues too! I have SO SO SO many unfinished fics. But I go through phases where I just push myself to get things done. The thing about writing is that it gets easier the more you do it, so you have to do it all the time. Even if you never post or publish, you have to do it. Instead of struggling with 500 words, you should move on and let the words make their way to "paper" and then you can go back and see if any of it makes sense (the next day!)
When I was in grad school, we always had to write these ridiculous 20-page papers. My friend and I would sit up all night trying to write them. My motto was "words on the paper, words on the paper," repeated over and over because I just had to get it done and I really couldn't worry about whether it was making any sense or not. Once I had 20 or so pages, I could go back and futz with it to make an argument (often, I failed to do so of course, but at least I had something to hand in!)
Maybe you should try comment fic or drabbles -- short little things that get your confidence up. It also gets you interacting with other writers, which has been the biggest and best thing about LJ and fanfic. Other writers make me better, and inspire me to do more. Porn battles are also good ;)
Depression can really hamper your writing, too, speaking from experience. I didn't start really writing a lot until I came out of depression a few years ago. In fact, fanfic was a way that I could distract myself from my depression sometimes. Look at me distracting myself from a bad work day right now!!
Thank for your comments... I appreciate being appreciated. Heh. :)
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Date: 2009-02-19 05:12 pm (UTC)You ask if my writing comes effortlessly - and well, sometimes it does, mostly it does not. When the characters are in my head, talking, it's easy. I have found that early on in SGA it was much easier, and then as the writers failed to be consistent with their characters and the fandom grew huge and sometimes critical, my writing was a lot more difficult.
Most often, writing is hard for me. And I have completion issues too! I have SO SO SO many unfinished fics. But I go through phases where I just push myself to get things done. The thing about writing is that it gets easier the more you do it, so you have to do it all the time. Even if you never post or publish, you have to do it. Instead of struggling with 500 words, you should move on and let the words make their way to "paper" and then you can go back and see if any of it makes sense (the next day!)
When I was in grad school, we always had to write these ridiculous 20-page papers. My friend and I would sit up all night trying to write them. My motto was "words on the paper, words on the paper," repeated over and over because I just had to get it done and I really couldn't worry about whether it was making any sense or not. Once I had 20 or so pages, I could go back and futz with it to make an argument (often, I failed to do so of course, but at least I had something to hand in!)
Maybe you should try comment fic or drabbles -- short little things that get your confidence up. It also gets you interacting with other writers, which has been the biggest and best thing about LJ and fanfic. Other writers make me better, and inspire me to do more. Porn battles are also good ;)
Depression can really hamper your writing, too, speaking from experience. I didn't start really writing a lot until I came out of depression a few years ago. In fact, fanfic was a way that I could distract myself from my depression sometimes. Look at me distracting myself from a bad work day right now!!
Thank for your comments... I appreciate being appreciated. Heh. :)