Post by malreve on Sept 19, 2014 15:40:21 GMT -5
Once, a quite long time ago, I put up one of my short stories on the net and somehow got a call from some online publisher that they wanted me to write a story for them, saying they'd pay for it. They said they had stumbled upon my short story and liked it so I was getting a commission from them...and I thought 'ah why not?! This sounds fun - and I get paid for it as well?!'...but then they wanted me to update a chapter weekly and me being not really a punctual person, I did not think I could pull it off - besides they wanted some work set in modern era, although I wanted to write some fantasy stuff. Of course I didn't have a saying in which genre I could choose lol as I was just no one in the writing industry lol
So I guess whilst writing itself is fun, but it is so because I do it just for fun... not sure how it'd be had I have to write for living, as a professional hmmmm
Probably not so much fun, not any more lolI guess I enjoy writing, because whilst I do that I come to discover something new within and outside me, about the world, about things around me, it also gives me new perspectives, like when I narrate a story from a mouth of some characters be them borrowed from some others' work (e.g., fanfictions) or my own, I get to see things from a different POV and it's refreshing and enlightening its own unique way. Sort of living vicariously, I guess. I emerge (or borrow a term from ASoIaF, warg) myself in different figures than myself, then my way of thinking, tones, mannerisms change, too, and that itself is a quite fascinating experience to me. And finally I get to share those/mine stories with other people and as something has affected me whilst I was at writing, now the outcome, i.e., the story, may affect those who read it as well...all of them is a very unique and precious process and experience methinks.
And in general, our species has this yearning for stories - and ever since we had any tools akin to languages, we always wrote, told and sang some kinds of stories...people like to create stories and listen to and read them as well...and this makes our kind quite extraordinary I think. As much as we live and exist on this earth, in the reality, we enjoy fictions, and sometimes I wonder what that might mean... why do we enjoy fictions so much? Not even just books, but movies as well (of course there are some film and books based on real events, but still the majority of them are our own creation, fictional - and what's their value? There must be a reason why we so much enjoy it)
Ah I'm sorry...I'm hijacking this comment section now! But you two brought up the interesting topic of writing and I just happened to ramble on lol
Yeah, to me writing is fun. But it's also hard work... a kind of fun you really have to be ready for in every way, like mountain-climbing. Ha ha ha!
I completely relate to what you're saying about different perspectives, and feeling that 'warg' effect... I go through that too. Too much sometimes, lol. But it is something that is really like nothing else there is (my eloquence fails, oh wow
).We are indeed programmed, in a way, to crave and seek out stories.
I am glad for your rambling, it gave me much of interest to think on.
And as for your earlier comment, yes I do want to return to writing the later part of the series. I knew it would bother people when the 'chapter' wasn't real. I wish AO3 had an actual Author's Note Chapter option so that way I wouldn't be getting people's hopes up when I'm not ready to meet them. However, I will soon return to that part of the series. I'm working my way up to it during my recovery--already doing much better than I was.
In the meantime, I started on a prologue to the series, actually, which nanjcsy on AO3 (I forget her username on the forums here at present) was able to tell me how to successfully work into the rest of the series. So I'm working on the prologue for now. I will probably open a separate thread for it, because it's not like I update with a new fic every day, or even every month. If Cheryl doesn't want the boards to function like that then I would hope she would let me (us?) know so that I don't end up doing something within the forums that she did not intend when she created them.
So, be on the lookout for that, I guess. I am still writing Thramsay--it's a winding journey, many twists and turns and what sometimes look like dead ends that I just decide to push through. Heh
