Creating characters... It's like you can make new lives and play with them. Giving them thoughts, feelings. Deciding whether or not to make them shallow or deep, to stereotype them or have them surprise the reader. The choices you can make when designing characters makes it all worth it for me.
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i love creating new characters. giving them each a voice, a "soul" if you will. giving them a concsence, and not really writing the story.. just letting the characters make the story, and you write it down =p i hate the endings of storys! i end up making up a diffrent ending or continueing off of it... >.< bad habits die hard ^.^
happy endings are stories that haven't been finished yet
got YWS?
You become Fate and God and everything else. A whole lot of people, animals, microorganisms do what you say!!
A perfect poem for this thread. Please Read:
The Joy of Writing
Why does this written doe bound through these written woods?
For a drink of written water from a spring
whose surface will xerox her soft muzzle?
Why does she lift her head; does she hear something?
Perched on four slim legs borrowed from the truth,
she pricks up her ears beneath my fingertips.
Silence - this word also rustles across the page
and parts the boughs
that have sprouted from the word "woods."
Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page,
are letters up to no good,
clutches of clauses so subordinate
they'll never let her get away.
Each drop of ink contains a fair supply
of hunters, equipped with squinting eyes behind their sights,
prepared to swarm the sloping pen at any moment,
surround the doe, and slowly aim their guns.
They forget that what's here isn't life.
Other laws, black on white, obtain.
The twinkling of an eye will take as long as I say,
and will, if I wish, divide into tiny eternities,
full of bullets stopped in mid-flight.
Not a thing will ever happen unless I say so.
Without my blessing, not a leaf will fall,
not a blade of grass will bend beneath that little hoof's full stop.
Is there then a world
where I rule absolutely on fate?
A time I bind with chains of signs?
An existence become endless at my bidding?
The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.
By Wislawa Szymborska
Calvin : You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes : What mood is that?
Calvin : Last-minute panic.
I completely agree with Sohini, creating your own world is by far the best part as it comprises the creation of characters and plotlines all in one. It's just amazing being in control for once and having all these people and events in the palm of your hand, being able to manipulate their fate and how their life is going to turn out. It's especially liberating if you're a bit like me and are never fully in control of your own life.
I also find creating new worlds extremely therapeutic. I know this has been said a thousand times before and is such a cliche, but it's so wonderful to be able to escape from reality into the world you've created and just bask in your own imagination. It's just...fantastic. The best thing about writing, by far.
Had I the heavens embroider'd cloths,
I would spread the cloths under your feet.
But I being poor, have only my dreams,
So tread softly, for you tread on my life.
I love creating my own world. Everything that I write is fantasy. It just helps me get away from reality when music isn't working...I hate those days.
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If you're reading this...you're finished reading.
Me? I really, honestly can't decide. There's something so beautiful in seeing words go down on a page, and there's so much excitement in the scheming; making the characters and watching them grow at your demand is so fulfilling. I love the beginning's possibilities, and the end's sort of bittersweet sense of accomplishment.
cheers.
I love that feeling when you're writing and you just go into a daze. As though you've entered some other level of existence. It's very calm. That's what I love about writing.
I said "I can't decide"! I love everything about writing from brainstorming to character creating to finishing the whole work! I just love it. The thing I love most though is being able to listen to music while I write to get inspired to do things, and make bold moves, or even use a song to help create a character!
Hey, I write historical fiction. I kind of need to be informed about my world and the people in it before I actually create any fictional or breath life back into the non-fic ones as well.
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