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What is Your Favorite Part of Writing?



What is Your Favorite Part of Writing?

The actual writing
129
13%
Creating Characters
208
22%
Plotting (and scheming :D )
85
9%
Researching the time period, culture, etc.
12
1%
Creating your own world
218
23%
Other - tell us below!
28
3%
I can't decide! Everything is just so much fun!
187
19%
Beginning a piece of work
49
5%
Ending a piece of work
44
5%
 
Total votes : 960


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Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:35 am
The Cheshire Cat says...



Entertaining People. Thats the reason I enjoy writing. I love to envoke emotions in people and paint a picture. It makes me so happy xD
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:42 am
cooldude19967 says...



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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Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:44 am
Jiggity says...



The best part of writing is entertaining other people.

It's the result, not the process, that interests me.
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:46 am
studious samus says...



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 ^.^
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:32 am
harrypotterbooklover101 says...



I really like the create the charriters.
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:24 am
Twit says...



Characters ftw.

But I suppose the end result as well, like other people have said.
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:25 am
myfreindsavamp says...



Ending a story. It makes you feel acomplished an then comes the editing part. :shock:
We've all been broken in some way. It's just how we express it that makes us dffrent form eachother.

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Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:49 pm
Sohini says...



Creating your own world!

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.



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Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:33 pm
CastlesInTheSky says...



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.
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:38 pm
Bleeding Rose says...



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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Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:59 pm
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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.
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Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:52 pm
Eliot says...



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.
  





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Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:51 pm
Jojo says...



The actual writing part, of course. Everything else is incidental. Just have so much fun with language!
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Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:21 am
Flux says...



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!
  





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Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:26 am
Fishr says...



Uhm, researching.

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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