Writing and inspiration

[radioactivez0r]

I like to fancy myself a writer, usually a creative one, and usually I just let ideas come to me. I can't generally sit down and "think up" something to write about - something has to inspire them. However, I took a paid writing gig for a gaming team's website as the head writer, and I'm supposed to be responsible for submitting 2 articles a week of my own creation. In the 4 months I've been involved with it, I've come to understand that I really don't work that way. When another site I do work for gave me an assignment, I banged it out in a couple hours (and made more money than I do for the actual writing job) because I had a clear focus and goal. If it's dependent on me to come up with the idea, though...it's very hit or miss. I don't brainstorm all that well, perhaps? When I have an idea, it's usually not bad and I can run with it, but having a 2 per week requirement I think is just too much.

It's probably the same in other tasks - give me a job to do and I'll do it exceedingly well, but if I have to come up with it on my own (i.e. at work and "being proactive") it's much harder.

[lollercancer]

i'm a writer, too. for my first script, i had an emotionally charged topic to write about. it came out and out, and when i was level headed i would edit it. but it flowed much better than I thought. after i got all that energy out of me, all i could do was write jokes or critiques. a few weeks later, my mind wandered onto a new topic of general focus (i think about philosophy in my free time) and suddenly, i had the urge to write again. I'm developing my second script now, on that very topic.

getting to the core of it, if i'm not emotionally invested in something, i won't care about it. If i don't care about it, i won't do my very best.

I've come to think that true genius exists only in 99.9999999999999999999% of the world, and that, truly, it is actually caring about something that gives you that "artist's touch" and makes you great.

[deicruxified]

I like to fancy myself a writer, usually a creative one, and usually I just let ideas come to me. *I can't generally sit down and "think up" something to write about - something has to inspire them. *However, I took a paid writing gig for a gaming team's website as the head writer, and I'm supposed to be responsible for submitting 2 articles a week of my own creation. *In the 4 months I've been involved with it, I've come to understand that I really don't work that way. *When another site I do work for gave me an assignment, I banged it out in a couple hours (and made more money than I do for the actual writing job) because I had a clear focus and goal. *If it's dependent on me to come up with the idea, though...it's very hit or miss. *I don't brainstorm all that well, perhaps? *When I have an idea, it's usually not bad and I can run with it, but having a 2 per week requirement I think is just too much. *

It's probably the same in other tasks - give me a job to do and I'll do it exceedingly well, but if I have to come up with it on my own (i.e. at work and "being proactive") it's much harder. *
i feel you. i don't write if i am forced to do so. i was under the instruction of one of the topnotch literary writers in this country and one time she had us submit anything we want to write under the sun. i had submitted a collection of my dreams (which i rearranged to form another story) which she thought can be passed as an entry for the national writing event. so i gave it a go but then she starts to

"rephrase this one.."
"this one's irrelevant.."

until the work is not mine but hers already so i backed out... intj ego or her ego? i just don't like what she's doing...

[StJimmy]

creative writing has always been of great interest to me, but i never seriously considered it as a career. in hindsight perhaps i should have pursued writing after all, instead of an engineering degree i never finished.

i also have to be intensely interested in a subject to get the urge to compose at all.

[Zeinland]

Hmm, I only write when my head is arguing about something. Yes my head, Two voices in my head and including myself. Logically speaking, im insane. But it seem's those "voices" are more intellegent than myself. Today one of them said to me " Let's fix America's Super debt!!!". Yes Im going Insane....

[biased]

Lately I've been writing out all my flaws and why they became the way they are. For example which people influenced this viewpoint I have of society. It's one of the greatest "therapeutic" methods I've found, I can't stand talking to psychologists about my problems unless it's related to pharmacology. This is how I ended up on here.

[Dover]

I would LOVE to write for a living, but if I am not pressured by deadlines or structure nothing solid really materializes. So right now it's just a hobby.