Writers Block discussion
So, why do you hate writer's block?
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i can't say that i hate it. i hate editing more than i hate writers block. and i think that if it weren't for writers block, i wouldn't put enough thought into what i write. but I don't LIKE it. it's frustrating. it's mind-boggling. it's hard to deal with.
that really is very well put, editing is the most terrible kind of torture for me!
oh me too! i'm beginning to see the beauty, in it, too. it is a very, slow, excrusiating process, though.
yea, Ijust wish my mind was perfect in grammar and such, but if it was where would be the fun of writing!
yeah! sometimes i make typos, otherwise grammar isn't my worst problem, although i do make mistakes. I am human. : ) it's in the development of the plot of characters and the clarity of writing that i have to try to fix.. it never works well.
yea like sometimes i know my characters so well in my head i forget to write everything i know about them down
yep... or i just figure every one else knows their nature and it makes sense why they are doing these things... i have to be careful.
yea it is a very very difficult thing to pay attention to
GASP!!! laina ur HUMAN?! lol. jk XDanyway... yeah writer's block sucks. i get it on and off. usually it'll only last for a day or less. although sometimes it can last for months.
editing is cool cuz mostly the whole story is figured out; you just have to worry about little details here and there, spelling/grammar etc. it's a slow process, but it's in some ways a little easier than writing the story itself. in my opinion anyway.
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haha brigid! actually i am a mouse, but that is a long story i will not go into. : ) My first draft is when I get ALL My ideas down. Even if i suspect something isn't going to work, I write it just in case it might. But that makes revision excruciating. I have so much to sort through and cut, and when I cut on chapter i have to put more information into another and I have to cut a few characters, pages, paragraphs, words!!! AHHH!! It is all very frusrating. Yet part of the writing life, so I love it! tee-hee-hee
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hmm, I actually don't mind writers block as much as everyone else seems too. Sure it's frustrating, but then I have more time to do other things. Like read and do homework.
yeah but that entire time that i'm reading/doing homework/whatever all i can think is 'I WISH I WAS WRITING RIGHT NOW!!!'
lol, I get too focused on what I'm doing to think that (usually!)but sometimes I have a random urge to write, like earlier today! i felt like writing the ABC story, but I didn't start it. I think i'll do that now...
Seth- Can u please write that other chapter? I'm clueless as to how to begin, and beyond busy. pretty please???
I don't like writers block because it's so frustraiting to just sit there and stare at the page with no idea how to fill it!
sorry!!! man, i've got so much stuff to write down!!
is that even a real word, "GAH"?
I think it's more of a sound actually... ahah. They should put it in the dictionary!
It's in Twilight, does that count?
idk if it's a real word, but it is an interjection to express frustration! GAAAH!!!
I hate writer's block. I try just to not think about it and see if something comes up, but that is hard when you want to get on with your story. Sometimes, I can make it work, though. I like other people editing me stuff, and I like to edit other people's stuff. How else are you going to learn? I always welcome comments. I can't fix it if I don't know it's broke!
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