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Question of the day part 10
usako:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on August 15, 2013, 02:15:13 PM ---I apologize to anyone if I sounded snarky. I was going through a bit this morning, one of my friends attempted suicide last night and I am a bit emotional.
Leads me to a question...do any real life events ever hinder your writing, or is it more of a release when you are not having a good day? When you're down, do you write, read or just avoid fanfiction together
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I'm sorry about your friend. :bighug: :bighug:
As for the question. I'm an emotional writer. Writing as always been my release/escape so, when I'm down, I project my sadness/feeling depressed/hurt on my characters (mostly Brian lol) to feel better.
mare:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on August 15, 2013, 02:15:13 PM ---I apologize to anyone if I sounded snarky. I was going through a bit this morning, one of my friends attempted suicide last night and I am a bit emotional.
Leads me to a question...do any real life events ever hinder your writing, or is it more of a release when you are not having a good day? When you're down, do you write, read or just avoid fanfiction together
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I'm sorry to hear that! And actually with all the crap and drama going on my life, writing has been a big help as a distraction. I think maybe that's why I'm a writing machine because when I take the time to stop and think, I turn into an emotional wreck.
Sakabelle:
Sorry to hear about your friend, Tracy.
It depends on what the real life events are, I suppose. For instance this week at work has been incredibly busy, so each day I come home so tired that I don't have the brainpower left to write. Sometimes if bad things are going on in other aspects of my life, writing can be a good escape, I've definitely done that before.
RokofAges75:
Tracy, I'm sorry about your friend. I hope she's going to be okay.
I usually can't write when I'm stressed out or upset about something, but if I'm able to focus, it can be a good way to either channel my feelings or distract me from them. A friend of mine from work was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer while I was halfway through writing Curtain Call, and I wondered how that would affect my ability to write that story because it suddenly hit close to home, but I think it actually helped me deal with my feelings about it and maybe even helped me prepare myself for her death because I just channeled everything into Cary. My friend died the day after I posted the end of CC, and I think that was a relief because even though I knew it was coming, it would have been hard to still have to finish the story after it actually happened in real life.
As far as distractions go, I started Secrets of the Heart one weekend when I was upset about something related to work, but I knew there was nothing I could do about it that weekend, so I just needed a way to take my mind off it, and starting a new story totally worked! It's one of the few times that has happened. Like Steph said, writing can be a good escape.
mare:
The writer's dilemma question:
Due to the recent disabling of the review function on the site, I figured this was the perfect time to ask this question because I know as a writer I am having a hard time lol
Now that reviews are no longer an option, will you still continue to update your stories? Or do you plan on waiting until the review function is up and running again?
Be honest! Because I know... I know... we write for ourselves blah blah blah... and we do. I have written 16 chapters of my new one just for me but the second half of that sentence is but we post to get a response from the people reading it!
I am kind of torn what I want to do. A big part of the joy of posting a chapter is the reaction the reader's have to it especially when it's a big chapter. You know, we've all had them. The ones where you can't wait to see what your readers will say when they read it?
I feel like the one I was going to post today is one of those and it'll kill me if and when I don't get any reaction lol Now that I have hit the meaty part of this story there are more chapters like that than not, so honestly, I might wait to post until the review function comes back.
I still might go ahead and post anyway, but it will bother me not to know the reactions the chapters are getting. I mean people can go into the update threads and review there but when you consider how few people take the time to review with the box right there... lol Anyway, just being completely honest about things. I hope you guys are too. What you say might help me make my decision.
Just for the love of GOD don't say I only write for myself and don't care about the reviews because you all care about reviews! LOL that drives me bananas! I have seen everyone mention reviews, even people who claim not to care! So just quit it!
Just so you know, if you do continue to post your stories I will take the time to leave you reviews in your update threads a long as you have them! Because that's how I roll!
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