For me, writing is simply trying to capture the more interesting parts of the things that go on in my head 24/7. I swear my brain never really shuts off and sometimes it's a race to find a pen and paper before the really good ideas are gone, abandoned for newer pursuits.
Insomnia + Edmondia Dantes about eight months ago showed me how I should have been writing all along and things have just continued to flow out of my head and onto paper ever since then.
And yeah, I totally identify with the way you use 'we' when referring to ficage. I've commented to my siblings and friends more than once about having gotten rid of the imaginary friends and such during childhood only to regress when becoming a writer. Muses, plot bunnies, chatacters . . . it's more crowded in my head now than it ever was when I was little! IM's with another writer friend of mine end up looking like a massive party when in reality, it's just the two of us and all the other voices in our heads.
But really, I've decided that writing feels like my mind telling me wonderful stories, and me struggling to capture them and set them on paper before they get away.
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Date: 2007-09-17 02:16 pm (UTC)Insomnia + Edmondia Dantes about eight months ago showed me how I should have been writing all along and things have just continued to flow out of my head and onto paper ever since then.
And yeah, I totally identify with the way you use 'we' when referring to ficage. I've commented to my siblings and friends more than once about having gotten rid of the imaginary friends and such during childhood only to regress when becoming a writer. Muses, plot bunnies, chatacters . . . it's more crowded in my head now than it ever was when I was little! IM's with another writer friend of mine end up looking like a massive party when in reality, it's just the two of us and all the other voices in our heads.
But really, I've decided that writing feels like my mind telling me wonderful stories, and me struggling to capture them and set them on paper before they get away.