Oh Why Not (Writing M-Thing)
As seen at heartofoshun's LJ and apparently done by half of everyone ... I have been working hard during the day to get ready for the school year but all work and no play makes Dawn a dull girl, right?
Pick the number(s) of the questions you'd like me to answer about my writing. (Like Oshun, I love talking about writing. Most writers do, I think ( Read more... )
Pick the number(s) of the questions you'd like me to answer about my writing. (Like Oshun, I love talking about writing. Most writers do, I think ( Read more... )
Pretty much everything I wrote before I started writing fanfic! I still have a lot of it, either in the quintessential notebooks maintained by our generation of young writers or on server backups of my files made by my dad. I don't quite have the courage to read any of them and hope I'm never famous enough that anyone wants to! :D
It was typical awkward young-woman writing: often romantic with fumbling sex scenes and some very overblown language. (Which is saying something since my language still tends toward "overblown.")
9) what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?
Art and solitude inspire me.
Art is anything that is beautiful and reaches me on an emotional level, usually with at least a touch of darkness to it. I am inspired mostly by other writing or by music. Films and visual art inspire me less; I think they are too external and don't allow me enough space to make my own images.
Solitude lets me write in my head, which is the way that I "write" primarily. (Putting it down onto paper or pixels is a formality.) I love solo outdoor activities like snowshoeing or riding my bike because I fall into a rhythm that lets me live almost entirely inside my own mind and own imagined worlds. I write a lot in these states.
11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?
I think I have developed more nuance in characterization. I no longer think of things in terms of good guys and bad guys but see everyone as a person just trying their best to get along.
I think I'm far less purple in my writing without reason. I think there is room for purple writing! But I used to write down everything that came to my head and now control that a little more. What advances the story, whether the plot, characterization, mood, or theme? What do I NEED my readers to see (that I don't want them to make up on their own)?
I think I'm also better at seeing my stories as coherent wholes: less drifting along and doing whatever. Now I generally have a purpose in what I want to accomplish and direct my writing to serve that purpose. Sometimes new ideas spring up that surprise me and I still go with them! :) But there is less of the fumbling around, trying to find my way, or so I hope.
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