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superhero_muses--Why do you choose to write?
...is an interestingly-open question because "choose" is such an odd word there. I guess I would gloss that as "What do you get out of writing?" For me it's--at its best--a sort of meditation. When the words are coming smoothly I feel no anxiety about anything, no worries about the future, no fretting about the past, it's just me and the words. If I can get ten minutes of that now and then, I'll keep writing forever. And I've had a lot of that flow this week, though grabbing the time has been a challenge! But I will confess I finished writing a passage and then pumped my fist and said out loud "This is good," which is so unlike me that I immediately started laughing. :P I hope you've had some of that feeling yourself this week!
...is an interestingly-open question because "choose" is such an odd word there. I guess I would gloss that as "What do you get out of writing?" For me it's--at its best--a sort of meditation. When the words are coming smoothly I feel no anxiety about anything, no worries about the future, no fretting about the past, it's just me and the words. If I can get ten minutes of that now and then, I'll keep writing forever. And I've had a lot of that flow this week, though grabbing the time has been a challenge! But I will confess I finished writing a passage and then pumped my fist and said out loud "This is good," which is so unlike me that I immediately started laughing. :P I hope you've had some of that feeling yourself this week!
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Date: 2015-08-22 02:18 am (UTC)Read over three chapters of the current novel and cringed because they were clunky, ineffective, distancing and just plain bad. So I'm redrafting those three chapters. I can't have my big climax to the trilogy reading that poorly.
Ooooh, but at least you could see it! I'm TERRIBLE at telling when something's gone wrong, and REALLY terrible at figuring out what it is even when I can see it! *clings to beta* I'm glad to hear the rewrite felt satisfying and I'm sure it'll be for the best in the long run!