Post by Toz76 on Feb 18, 2018 1:15:37 GMT -5
I am a terrible writer.
I have ideas, sure, lots of them. But when I try to put them down, translate them into something coherent, it comes out as garbage.
I can't write humor. I can do deadpan snarker (who can't?), innuendo (barf), meta gags (which I'm over reliant on), and the occasional pun (not even good puns). That's it. Not the best combination.
I can't write action. I can't write suspense. I guess I can do dialogue (but I never use speaker tags), but let's be honest, that's boring AF. Even this... thing, which in my head was much more... it was better. Longer. More impactful. Less self-pitying and more... I dunno.
But that doesn't mean I'm not going to try.
Writing is fun. It alleviates my depression, lets me live vicariously through these characters. It makes me happy. Maybe that's a shallow reason to keep writing. After all, I hate literary criticism. I think fans of Shakespeare are pretentious assholes, and that Freud motherfucker can go screw himself (calling Freud a motherfucker? Bad pun and an innuendo. Jesus Christ.) I'm hardly the next Tolkien or Rowling. But damnit, I love the universes we've created here. I want them to survive and thrive. And I want to be a part of that.
I haven't been around much lately. Writers block plus school plus the forum being dead plus sucking equals not being on much. But I've had a lot more inspiration in the past 24 hours alone, and I'm going to do my best to improve my writing here. Expect a bunch of short stories in the next few months. Not on a regular basis, but often. I can't promise they'll be good, but I'll try to make them funny. Insightful. Dramatic. Not so fucking sexualized.
And most of them will have titles from Nightwish songs. Don't judge me.
I have ideas, sure, lots of them. But when I try to put them down, translate them into something coherent, it comes out as garbage.
I can't write humor. I can do deadpan snarker (who can't?), innuendo (barf), meta gags (which I'm over reliant on), and the occasional pun (not even good puns). That's it. Not the best combination.
I can't write action. I can't write suspense. I guess I can do dialogue (but I never use speaker tags), but let's be honest, that's boring AF. Even this... thing, which in my head was much more... it was better. Longer. More impactful. Less self-pitying and more... I dunno.
But that doesn't mean I'm not going to try.
Writing is fun. It alleviates my depression, lets me live vicariously through these characters. It makes me happy. Maybe that's a shallow reason to keep writing. After all, I hate literary criticism. I think fans of Shakespeare are pretentious assholes, and that Freud motherfucker can go screw himself (calling Freud a motherfucker? Bad pun and an innuendo. Jesus Christ.) I'm hardly the next Tolkien or Rowling. But damnit, I love the universes we've created here. I want them to survive and thrive. And I want to be a part of that.
I haven't been around much lately. Writers block plus school plus the forum being dead plus sucking equals not being on much. But I've had a lot more inspiration in the past 24 hours alone, and I'm going to do my best to improve my writing here. Expect a bunch of short stories in the next few months. Not on a regular basis, but often. I can't promise they'll be good, but I'll try to make them funny. Insightful. Dramatic. Not so fucking sexualized.
And most of them will have titles from Nightwish songs. Don't judge me.