Discussion Post: Writing!

[scorpiod1]

So my Creative Writing homework (the one I should be doing right now *facepalm*) is to write a personal essay on something we are passionate about. I feel this may be somewhat redundant, but I'm going to do it on writing, why I write and when I started writing and such (because I feel an essay on fandom with just garner confusion *g

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[sidesmile]

I write both fanfic and original stuff (though the latter often doesn't get online at all).

For original fiction, I'm always suddenly having these quick movies that run into my head (no wonder I'm a film major). I daydream a lot and love to develop characters in my head--develop their history and their beliefs which later develop into a story. I find myself needing to release them usually through writing or drawing.

Fanfiction writing is mainly for fun. The drabble request, I really need to set myself down and force myself to do it when it is something I'm less familiar with doing. The ones for myself is more likely when a character or characters really pull my emotional strings really hard--even for characters I don't really like. I wrote a gen. fic centering on Vicki. She's not my favorite character, but I was so depressed from that episode and she was in my head for days. I thought wow, she was a seriously tragic figure the writers created. Terrible family life, the only figure she had was her brother who she loved and envied, she was a drug abuser and she knew her life was a mess and saw nothing in her future--the worse of it though?--She was right and I just had to put it down in words.

I often start things though and just run out of inspiration to ever finish some things unfortunately. >>;

Anyway, I hope that helps a little.

[scorpiod1]

My original stuff never gets on line either. Not sure if I want everyone to see it, but I have shown it to a few real life friends.

I daydream a lot too. I think that's where my first ideas came from, me daydreaming and wanting to put into words. And YES to developing characters in your head. I do that all the time, but I never get around to putting them to paper :/

FANFICTION IS FUN :D Also, I really need to read this Vicki gen fic. She was so tragic and she reminded me so much of people I knew in high school, which is probably why she resonated so much.

Oh woe. I have so many fics I've started and need to finish ;___;

It's awesome <3

[sidesmile]

I've daydream since I was a kid. I have a whole story planned out in my head but it always stops on paper XD But it's fun to imagine.

If you want to check out the Vicki fic, it is here on my writing journal. I was so depressed after "Haunted" premiered. I stayed up that night writing it because I had to get it down and finish it before I went to bed or else I wouldn't get to sleep. I really think it was right to kill her character off. Happy endings don't always exist and though it has a supernatural twist, it's real in the fact that those like Vicki don't always make it out and get better. It's really depressing to think about it. I sort of want to do something similar to Ben (though he wasn't as tragic, but he also wasn't there as long).

Glad I can help <3

[scorpiod1]

Oh god, that happens to me all the time. Whole story in head, but putting it on paper is hard, yo XD

I support doing the same thing for Ben! BEN! Ben/Anna! :D