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Jun. 19th, 2009
Answer(s) of the Day!
Jun. 19th, 2009 12:08 pm(you know the drill)
I've got a bunch of writing-related questions - and no, I don't expect you to answer all (or, indeed, any) of them! :)
Do you read your own stories (other than at audience readings)? If you do, when you read them, do you enjoy them on their merits, or do you look at them with the eye of an editor (and experience) and think "should have done THAT part differently", for example? Is the act of reading them tinged by memories of the act of writing them? Or by the memories or incidents that may have inspired the story in the first place?
Do you have an ideal writing environment (chair, location, music, quiet, smells, sounds, company, solitude, indoors, outdoors, whatever) - can you describe it? Does it improve your creativity when you're closer to such an ideal, or hamper your creativity the farther away you get from it, or can you write anywhere, with anything?
I have found that the stories I write are often tinged by the memories of the act of writing them, most especially when the memories are negative -- that is, if it was hard to write, I will often think that it's a "bad story," when in fact it could be a story that lots of people seem to like. If enough time has passed, I can sometimes even see what they see in it. Sometimes, I will also think a story is more powerful than it really is because such strong feelings inspired its composition in the first place.
I have been known to both surprise myself ("damn I'm good!") upon re-reading a story, and to be more critical than I was at the time.
I don't have an ideal writing environment, except to say that I don't seem to be able to do anything but make notes by hand any more. Apparently, I need a keyboard. I prefer company, but I don't need it. I seem to write better in the evenings than in the morning.
I've got a bunch of writing-related questions - and no, I don't expect you to answer all (or, indeed, any) of them! :)
Do you read your own stories (other than at audience readings)? If you do, when you read them, do you enjoy them on their merits, or do you look at them with the eye of an editor (and experience) and think "should have done THAT part differently", for example? Is the act of reading them tinged by memories of the act of writing them? Or by the memories or incidents that may have inspired the story in the first place?
Do you have an ideal writing environment (chair, location, music, quiet, smells, sounds, company, solitude, indoors, outdoors, whatever) - can you describe it? Does it improve your creativity when you're closer to such an ideal, or hamper your creativity the farther away you get from it, or can you write anywhere, with anything?
I have found that the stories I write are often tinged by the memories of the act of writing them, most especially when the memories are negative -- that is, if it was hard to write, I will often think that it's a "bad story," when in fact it could be a story that lots of people seem to like. If enough time has passed, I can sometimes even see what they see in it. Sometimes, I will also think a story is more powerful than it really is because such strong feelings inspired its composition in the first place.
I have been known to both surprise myself ("damn I'm good!") upon re-reading a story, and to be more critical than I was at the time.
I don't have an ideal writing environment, except to say that I don't seem to be able to do anything but make notes by hand any more. Apparently, I need a keyboard. I prefer company, but I don't need it. I seem to write better in the evenings than in the morning.