Writing, and various recent squee
Sep. 27th, 2010 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elaby*shamelessly ogles own icon*
Today is a good day for bulleted lists.
- I just had a Lush bath and now I'm utterly covered in sparkles. *turns to and fro, glitters*
- SCREW YOU, UTERUS. I don't need you!
- I hit the jackpot at Barnes and Noble yesterday. I had a gift card from work (yay recognition!) and I hadn't used it because every time I went in, they had nothing I wanted. This time, they had:
+ Kobato, vol 2
+ Kuroshitsuji, vol 2
+ Bleach, vol 1 (I've been enjoying the anime so much! XD But I didn't see most of the first season, so I really want to read the manga. It's pretty awesome so far.)
+ Extremely cheap, gorgeous notebook with pretty girl and trees
And I still have $15 left :D
- Watched first half of Two Towers the other night. Resisted urge to fast-forward through the Frodo-and-Sam parts. Laughed like a fool when Legolas stated where the orcs were taking Merry and Pippin. Remembered how much I <3 Eomer OMG. Also, Theoden FTW.
-![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
astillac has this cool book about how to be your own creativity coach, and how to motivate yourself and talk yourself through artistly self-beatings. We decided to do each exercise as she reads about them. This week we assigned ourselves the first one, in which you have a conversation between yourself as artist and yourself as coach and try to tackle the difficult questions, such as "why does my work matter?". It was really, really cool, and I found it very helpful.
- I've been drawing lately instead of writing because drawing for me involves less pressure to be perfect and to conform to some nebulous societal standard of quality, and drawing garners quicker satisfaction and more instant gratification
- I haven't been writing because I haven't had anything I've really wanted to write about, and because I'm afraid to commit to a goal of publishing because I fear rejection, judgment, wasting my time, and burnout
- I get more enjoyment out of the act of writing when I write fanfic, but more enjoyment out of the act of creation when I write original fiction; I've concluded from this that I need to approach my original fiction the way I approach writing fic
- The reason I write is because it makes me happy to play with words and happy to create characters and situations, and because I want to get the things in my head out into the world
- I want to write to meet my own standards of significance, not somebody else's
- I don't think my writing matters to the world/humanity/history at large, but it could matter to some individuals, and it matters enough to me not to give up on it
Today is a good day for bulleted lists.
- I just had a Lush bath and now I'm utterly covered in sparkles. *turns to and fro, glitters*
- SCREW YOU, UTERUS. I don't need you!
- I hit the jackpot at Barnes and Noble yesterday. I had a gift card from work (yay recognition!) and I hadn't used it because every time I went in, they had nothing I wanted. This time, they had:
+ Kobato, vol 2
+ Kuroshitsuji, vol 2
+ Bleach, vol 1 (I've been enjoying the anime so much! XD But I didn't see most of the first season, so I really want to read the manga. It's pretty awesome so far.)
+ Extremely cheap, gorgeous notebook with pretty girl and trees
And I still have $15 left :D
- Watched first half of Two Towers the other night. Resisted urge to fast-forward through the Frodo-and-Sam parts. Laughed like a fool when Legolas stated where the orcs were taking Merry and Pippin. Remembered how much I <3 Eomer OMG. Also, Theoden FTW.
-
astillac has this cool book about how to be your own creativity coach, and how to motivate yourself and talk yourself through artistly self-beatings. We decided to do each exercise as she reads about them. This week we assigned ourselves the first one, in which you have a conversation between yourself as artist and yourself as coach and try to tackle the difficult questions, such as "why does my work matter?". It was really, really cool, and I found it very helpful. - I've been drawing lately instead of writing because drawing for me involves less pressure to be perfect and to conform to some nebulous societal standard of quality, and drawing garners quicker satisfaction and more instant gratification
- I haven't been writing because I haven't had anything I've really wanted to write about, and because I'm afraid to commit to a goal of publishing because I fear rejection, judgment, wasting my time, and burnout
- I get more enjoyment out of the act of writing when I write fanfic, but more enjoyment out of the act of creation when I write original fiction; I've concluded from this that I need to approach my original fiction the way I approach writing fic
- The reason I write is because it makes me happy to play with words and happy to create characters and situations, and because I want to get the things in my head out into the world
- I want to write to meet my own standards of significance, not somebody else's
- I don't think my writing matters to the world/humanity/history at large, but it could matter to some individuals, and it matters enough to me not to give up on it
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-09-28 12:17 am (UTC)Hope you feel better soon!
no subject
Date: 2010-09-28 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-28 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-28 09:17 pm (UTC)Buuu to uteruses (uteri?) and their monthly shenanigans.
Very profound thoughts on writing. I hope it was helpful. Your writing, is, of course, important to me, as always.
no subject
Date: 2010-09-28 10:31 pm (UTC)It was helpful. Also helpful is knowing that my writing is important to you <3
no subject
Date: 2010-09-29 02:55 am (UTC)I think "world/humanity/history at large" and "some individuals" are really the same thing--on different scales, yes, but I mean. Humanity is made up of individuals, and we all shape history at large. Ripples in the pond, and all that. So if your writing can matter to or influence even just a few people--even just one person--it's definitely worth it. I know some of the literary works that matter most to me, that most stick in my head and shape my thoughts and make me laugh when I'm at my wit's end, are pieces of fan fiction that were written for a small(ish) audience of real living people, not for posterity. (One of the scenes that sticks in my head is your blending of Holmes/Watson with Hamlet/Horatio--that one with "He that thou knowest thine" &c. *swoon*) This is one of the thoughts that keeps me (sporadically) writing--that if my writing can have a deep impact on, well, anyone, it is worth it, no matter that the work itself may be forgotten by the next generation.
Also, I hear you on the uterus problem. Stupid useless organs!
no subject
Date: 2010-09-29 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-29 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-29 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-29 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-29 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 01:03 am (UTC)