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I Didn't Think I Was *That* Different
Queen Christina: Who on God's earth could possibly be a match for me?
Azzollino: He would have to be a man. . . quite rare.
- The Abdication, by Ruth Wolff
I had some free time this morning, so I decided to finally give in to all the banner ads and create a profile on eHarmony.com. (I'm deciding to open myself up to passion again, after all.) I completed their very long personality profile, and selected "The World" as the region in which to search.
The result?
Not. One. Match.
None.
Zilch.
Nada.
In the whole world.
Azzollino: He would have to be a man. . . quite rare.
- The Abdication, by Ruth Wolff
I had some free time this morning, so I decided to finally give in to all the banner ads and create a profile on eHarmony.com. (I'm deciding to open myself up to passion again, after all.) I completed their very long personality profile, and selected "The World" as the region in which to search.
The result?
Not. One. Match.
None.
Zilch.
Nada.
In the whole world.
On writing
I am also really enjoying out conversation also. It's been a while that I have looked forward to checking my livejournal this much.
I understand completely the perdicament. I have had the same problem even in regular gameing. Sometimes the input and direction from others gets to be too much. You are still the author, it is your work and you need to maintain control of it. Meshing work from mulipule authors in a cohesive story is a challenge, it becomes too easy to loose focus or to depend on others in ways that are not supportive of the story.
I was working on a writing project once that I was doing as a gift to a friend. She was one of the characters in it, and when I gave her the first chapters, she hated what I had done with her character and wouldn't read anymore of the story until I fixed it. I never fixed it.
I am more than willing to wait until you are finished. But I am very interested in seeing the final draft when you do decide to release it.
I give credit where it is due, I am a writer sometimes myself. It is a process, a full time job that takes a lot of work and creates more than enough stress. I know your story isn't perfect now, but from what it sounds like you are making revisions and expansions and most importantly keeping true to yourself with it. You are also actually writing, which is more than a lot of people who claim to want to be writers do.
I know once I revisit something I made years ago I find it hard to write in the same voice. My moods and feelings have changed and the piece changes with them. The best i have ever been able to do is a full rewrite of an old piece, using it as inspiration for a new piece in the new voice.
My favorite author, chuck palanuick got into writing because he was an insomniac who ran out of books to read. He kept picking new books up and thinking that he could do better. So he did, he wrote the kind of books he likes to read and is now a bestselling author.
Energy calls to energy, I have a great deal of creative energy, it is the truth of my soul. I cannot write to you about these things without being enthusiastic and calling out to your creative energy.
I write mircofiction short stories mostly. Sometimes I get around to staring an ambitious project, but something happens and I can't continue. Now I can't even find my old projects. They got lost someplace. I have written stories inspired by games, or my muses dictate great stories to me.
Some of the best writing I have ever read was in comics. I am a fan, but I generally only read comic reccomended to me by people I trust.
They have a small audience and are seldom taken seriously. Not that being popular or taken seriously is important. I just consider comic books to be the lowest form of anything I would actually seek to get published in. There is stuff lower, but I wont even go there.
Re: On writing
Ach. That's tough for both of you. When I'm in love, I write stories for the other person, starring the other person. I've been fortunate that this has usually been well-received. I felt extremely fortunate that my friends responded as well as they did to their avatars in Occupation. But I've had a couple of instances in which someone has tried to write me - or even one of my PC's - and I haven't liked what they've done. It's an uncomfortable feeling, like they don't know me as well as I thought, or that they were twisting me to suit themselves.
I've never heard of chuck palanuick. What does he write? But I can relate to his motivation. That's how I've felt for a long time.
I'd like to read some of your writing.
Re: On writing
CP wrote Fight Club and several other books on Identity. Even if you may have not liked Fight Club his work is very worth reading. I posted the link to his site (which includes a writer's workshop).
I am going to at least get some notes published today. No matter what I will be writing again shortly and posting what I write to LJ. Cause I am a glutton for punishment.
Re: On writing
Not sure if I liked it enough to pick up his books, but I'll keep an eye out next time I'm in the bookstore.
I look forward to reading your notes!
Re: On writing
Fight club isn't even his best work, but it's what just about everyone knows him for. I like his non-fiction most, but he's also done some contemp. horror and more books like Fight Club, I consider Fight Club to mostly be about identity a subject that Chuck writes about a great deal.
I look forward to writting them up... just as soon as I get caught up on my tags and do some housework.