Randomness

[samsom]

I said this recently, but I'll say it again here. Writing is hard - hard to coax the words out, hard to put them into some kind of order on the screen, to not use the same word repititiously, to find some new angle, a new light, to an old scene. Or to properly set up those between canon moments that live in my head. Hard to slip into a character's head, and sometimes hard to jump back out again. If I had a free hour or two, I swear I'd spend the time surfing flists and comms, instead of working the word doc WIP I've opened up. Other times I've got a little elbow digging into my thigh, and my husband nudging me every two seconds because The Man Show just did another funny skit -

-and the characters are speaking right then.

I wonder if this is what it means to be an artist. I never considered myself one before, there's such pretention down that road, but what if I am? Because why else would I be driven to write? Is that the difference, when you're driven to do it?

I've been writing, in one form or another, since I was twelve. So even though I've never been published, or even close to it, does that make me a writer?

Or is this still something I do instead of scrapbooking or backpacking?

Comments

[califi.livejournal.com]

You'ra a writer, m'dear. You don't need your name on the cover of a published book to give you the entitlement, - you just need to feel the need to write until you wanna scream in frustration if you can't find the right words or your Muse is being totally uncooperative.

you're a writer/artist if something- anything makes your fingers itch to put something on paper.

Its both frustrating and adrenalin hopping.

And it's FABULOUS.

Mostly. :P



if it makes you feel any better, Ch 5 of GTKY is nearly done- with an added surpise scene ;)

*hugs you*

Sach xxxx

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Yay! Can't wait:P

And I so agree, writing is like crack, but damn, when it won't come out right, the crash sucks. But the compulsion has always been with me, and I can't imagine it ever going away.

Let's just hope I never get to a point where I cut my ear off for my art:)