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Patience is a virtue
. If you have the patience to be defeated at multiple games of chess, you'll have the patience to get good in writing. If it is merely the issue of translating thoughts into words (which I also struggle with), I would recommend maybe writing a letter to yourself or something like that. You have the freedom to craft your own thoughts and no one will read it. Subjects that matter to you will give the writing a sense of focus and you will be your own judge at the words you have written. Do you read at all? Sometimes reading how others shape their thoughts help too.
I guess. Although I did create the guild in the first place... lol.
Challenging for some, maybe
. My stories have a definite stance on which they stand. While that is fine for my purposes at the time they were written (Anything to ***** out the seeds of hatred in the young minds that would later grow up to be the next generation of haters sending hate mails) I think I have changed in how I approach and use writing in general. For example, I no longer try to express a belief which I want others to accept. I write now because I seek solace in writing and explore what it means to live. So it's full of hypotheses and suppositions instead of having moral grounds.
Dunno why, but I thought meeting a paranoid Ruben in real life would be cute...
Oh, growing up means more to me. It means accepting things as they are, that wrongs in the past cannot be righted, that past friendships cannot be fixed, that whomever you loved must be kept in the dark, that life isn't worth living and probably never will be, that I can't keep my family from religion so they won't hate me, that peace with oneself can never be had, that I cannot forgive what horrible things people did to me, that I think I have lived way too long and all I wanted to do is stop this suffering. Life is a curse.
--Going back to the very first paragraph, the above is how I shaped my thoughts. Could have done better though.
. If you have the patience to be defeated at multiple games of chess, you'll have the patience to get good in writing. If it is merely the issue of translating thoughts into words (which I also struggle with), I would recommend maybe writing a letter to yourself or something like that. You have the freedom to craft your own thoughts and no one will read it. Subjects that matter to you will give the writing a sense of focus and you will be your own judge at the words you have written. Do you read at all? Sometimes reading how others shape their thoughts help too.
I guess. Although I did create the guild in the first place... lol.
Challenging for some, maybe
. My stories have a definite stance on which they stand. While that is fine for my purposes at the time they were written (Anything to ***** out the seeds of hatred in the young minds that would later grow up to be the next generation of haters sending hate mails) I think I have changed in how I approach and use writing in general. For example, I no longer try to express a belief which I want others to accept. I write now because I seek solace in writing and explore what it means to live. So it's full of hypotheses and suppositions instead of having moral grounds.
Dunno why, but I thought meeting a paranoid Ruben in real life would be cute...
Oh, growing up means more to me. It means accepting things as they are, that wrongs in the past cannot be righted, that past friendships cannot be fixed, that whomever you loved must be kept in the dark, that life isn't worth living and probably never will be, that I can't keep my family from religion so they won't hate me, that peace with oneself can never be had, that I cannot forgive what horrible things people did to me, that I think I have lived way too long and all I wanted to do is stop this suffering. Life is a curse.
--Going back to the very first paragraph, the above is how I shaped my thoughts. Could have done better though.
11-Jun-2012 13:57:26 - Last edited on 11-Jun-2012 14:00:35 by Englishkid62
Nope. I think that they can be quite the same
. I think this maybe where our writing strategies differ. When I write I first think about what I'm trying to express and what I'm trying to evoke in a reader's mind. That is different from giving the story a scene setting that is convincing and paint it with imagery. I spend far less time thinking about that particular world and what new objects/names it has in it and what it is like to live there, but instead divert my energies to develop the characters and through their actions towards each other, try to convey something of value. A letter to oneself can therefore be purely expressive in nature. Once you get the hang of how to convey your thoughts into words, other fantasy elements can then add to that in a story context. But a letter is often a way for you to find out what really makes you burn and what really gets to you at that time. Not having to worry about world design and character design and plot design, it gets you to express yourself with words right away.
Ah okay, so pretty much all fantasy then. No wonder you want to write fantasy!
Not really, I don't post recent works. I wouldn't think they're philosophies because it's more like a character trying to find out what works for him. Philosophy has a definite authority about it.
I can imagine a paranoid Ruben in Sims 3...
Well, that's part of accepting what is done is done. The ball maybe on their court (which would be the same case as mine), but parts of me still wonder how we've come to this stage at all. And... you aren't exactly going to tell every guy you've ever liked that you had feelings, right? Awkward...
Love, along with Hope and Faith are amongst the most horrible human inventions. They promise one thing and take it all away, leaving nothing behind.
. I think this maybe where our writing strategies differ. When I write I first think about what I'm trying to express and what I'm trying to evoke in a reader's mind. That is different from giving the story a scene setting that is convincing and paint it with imagery. I spend far less time thinking about that particular world and what new objects/names it has in it and what it is like to live there, but instead divert my energies to develop the characters and through their actions towards each other, try to convey something of value. A letter to oneself can therefore be purely expressive in nature. Once you get the hang of how to convey your thoughts into words, other fantasy elements can then add to that in a story context. But a letter is often a way for you to find out what really makes you burn and what really gets to you at that time. Not having to worry about world design and character design and plot design, it gets you to express yourself with words right away.
Ah okay, so pretty much all fantasy then. No wonder you want to write fantasy!
Not really, I don't post recent works. I wouldn't think they're philosophies because it's more like a character trying to find out what works for him. Philosophy has a definite authority about it.
I can imagine a paranoid Ruben in Sims 3...
Well, that's part of accepting what is done is done. The ball maybe on their court (which would be the same case as mine), but parts of me still wonder how we've come to this stage at all. And... you aren't exactly going to tell every guy you've ever liked that you had feelings, right? Awkward...
Love, along with Hope and Faith are amongst the most horrible human inventions. They promise one thing and take it all away, leaving nothing behind.
13-Jun-2012 12:47:40
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