POP QUIZ

Aug 27, 2008 21:24

Or not. I was going to make this a poll with radio buttons-"Which of the following embarrassing sentences did bironic not write once upon a time"-but you know what? I had too much fun picking out passages. So: All of the following come from stories I wrote between the ages of about 13 and 18. Hope you enjoy.

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fic writing (or lack thereof), my writing, mary suuuuue, fanfic meta

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blackmare August 28 2008, 01:52:17 UTC
Oh. Okay, yes, I get this; I struggle with "audience block" with my art. It absolutely kills creativity.

You have my deepest sympathy there. And you know what? Your younger-days writing was pretty darn good!

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bironic August 28 2008, 02:20:44 UTC
Ha! Thanks.

Have you found any solutions to "audience block" for yourself?

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blackmare August 28 2008, 02:38:50 UTC
Yes, I have found one thing that does help a lot and, in fact, just earlier today I was thinking I needed to start again. Eight years of custom mural work (and living in a town that cared basically nothing for art in general, let alone mine in particular) has left me with a pretty bad block.

What worked for me before was to get notebook paper out and write stream-of-consciousness garbage as I sat with my morning coffee. Just whatever came out, whatever I thought, was worried about, happy about or aggravated over. I wouldn't think of what to write; I'd just start writing and whatever came out would come out. Sometimes it was whatever I remembered dreaming. Sometimes I'd sketch or doodle. Sometimes I'd end up writing free-verse. Sometimes I'd write crap that just didn't seem to mean anything. Basically what this did was clear away all that internal noise by putting it on the page.

It doesn't sound very helpful, but it really, really was.

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bironic August 28 2008, 02:42:10 UTC
I bet it was. One thing I'm doing is just like what you've described: I've broken out a notebook to restart a nightly journal. I was kind of astonished to find that I could still write full-speed with a pen and paper after so long spent slowly composing emails and posts. I hope it eventually helps with the creative writing.

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blackmare August 28 2008, 02:54:50 UTC
It's also helpful for me -- both in fanfic and as a visual artist, strangely enough -- to revisit fandoms I thought I had outgrown. Watch a few episodes of, say, Magnum, P.I. or old Doctor Who and let my imagination play.

It also helps me to look at other people who are totally getting away with the kind of bold, wacky creative stuff that I think of and then squash because I fear the reaction it will get.

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bironic August 28 2008, 03:03:53 UTC
Curious:

to revisit fandoms I thought I had outgrown. Watch a few episodes of, say, Magnum, P.I. or old Doctor Who

Are those by chance shows you were a fan of without being in fandom? Or were you online for those too?

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blackmare August 28 2008, 03:47:02 UTC
Actually, yes -- thanks for the distinction. There was no such thing as the internet when I first watched and loved those shows.

I was a fan, but fandom was not known to me in any form.

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