Reeling and Writhing

[bobquasit]

Here's something that's sort of funny: for all that I complained that writing here was a waste of my life, the recent period of relatively low activity taught me something that I should have already known.

I like to write.

Even thought it's not as good as I would like it to be, even though I'm not "accomplishing" anything, writing scratches in itch in my psyche. I'd love to create stories and essays that I could be really proud of. You have no idea how badly I need to be creative, but the inspiration just hasn't been there lately. But even the usual crap that I produce makes me feel better than writing nothing.

And I haven't forgotten what I said in a voice-post a while back, about thinking of writing as a toy. I've been teetering on the edge of an insight, I think; somehow there should be a relationship between writing fiction and gamemastering a roleplaying game. I was a good GM; there must be a way to take the story-creating elements of GMing, the things that made GMing fun, and translate them into writing fiction.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I can understand the need to be creative... I have that all the time. It's why I write, why I GM (rather than just play) etc. I also have the need for the social contact that GMing brings.

I need to get back to my poetry soon... it's been a while since I've done some haiku in my journal...

[meopta.livejournal.com]

I'm just hopping onto the waste of your life aspect. If you archive your LJ, won't it be something your kids would find irreplaceable? What was dad really like when I was (whatever) age? What was he like when he wasn't being dad?

Wouldn't you find your great grandfather's LJ interesting?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Actually, a lot of the reason I write this is for my son. I do archive my journal. But there are some days when that somehow doesn't satisfy me. I feel the need to accomplish more with it, somehow.

Oh well.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the writing you do here is very good... I'm not talking about the fiction per se (not that that's bad) but other things. For example, some of the stories you tell about Sebastian are very well told, for all that they are "things that happened" and not "things that are made up."

I can't do that, and I think maybe I wish I could (although I admit that if I could, I'd still think writing fiction was cooler.)

Kiralee