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Original - Misc › Non-Fiction/True Stories/Autobiographical
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
52
Views:
7,179
Reviews:
192
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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Camui & Emotional Truth
Camui & Emotional Truth
Welcome to the new home of How do I Write?? Are you Kidding me!!!. Thanks for the heads up on the impending deletion of the RANTS/JOURNAL section. Way tah go by finding little ole’ moi. Mauh!!
So here we go again….This review got me thinking. (Oh the pain the pain of it all!) Insert tongue in cheek here…your choice of whose tongue.
Camui
I debated reviewing this story for two reasons:
A) It's only one chapter, half a thousand hits, and you already have nearly 30 reviews, why get another?
and
B) It's only one chapter, half a thousand hits, and you already have nearly 30 reviews... and it's taken me 7 chapters to get over a thousand hits and 30 reviews. Jealousy much? Plox.
Anyway. I like how it was short, it leaves one nearly begging for more. Such a twist.~ Definitely something worth keeping an eye out for.~ ;D
So what kicked me in the creative cajones? I don’t know why I get hits and reviews but I love them. I really love them because I am a glory hound. Stroke my ego and I’ll do wonders. So I’ve sucked on a couple of Jones Soda Co carbonated candy –green apple flava or pomme verte en francais and thought about it. The only thing I can think of that could account for this is --writing from the heart.
Yes, it sounds like a Hallmark moment, but I think it’s true.
I won’t tell you how many times I’ve been sitting at my keyboard with tears stinging my eyes, or running down my face. I’ve had to get up and leave because the moment had gotten emotional. I’ve been to the other end of the spectrum as well – smex = amorous, laughter and joy. Shaking my booty to some hot rocking little number while trying to figure out how to get Sexy to move. I pour my emotions into my boys and because of that I think my characters must in turn touch something in the Reader.
In my creative writing class we had a discussion about character development and when the instructor informed the class that your characters are a part of you, some of my classmates almost freaked. Their biggest fear was that you were exposing yourself…not in the fun plastic rain coat way.
I think I’ve come to that realization at the beginning of CAKE. I was going through a bitch of a time and, I might have mentioned before, but I worked through a hell of a lot junk I was carrying around with me in that book. So now, maybe I just exposed myself more than I intended but…that was then, this is now.
How you put your ‘EMOTIONAL TRUTH’ out there is key too. I’m getting it out of me and giving it to my characters and they in turn are sort of hiding it within themselves. Am I making sense here? Very few of us wear our hearts on our sleeves while we/characters feel and deal with emotion, unless we are out for an Academy Award or have the emotional control of a two year old (Sex/Armor). Then you have to build a reason why the characters had that particular little emotional trauma whether that be good or bad and those circumstance have absolutely nothing to do with your personal emotional state of being.
Which I guess is the creative writing part eh?
While my characters might have some of my emotional landscape, I’m not a Lycan, a Vampire, A weretiger, suicidal or wrapped up and lost in angsty feelings. Actually since I started writing this way, I am a hell of a lot happier!! The Loyal get to cry a lot but you keep coming back for more. You click and you review and feed my ravenous ego and I make you cry or laugh…well don’t make you, I’m not a bully.
Maybe the characters click with the LOYAL on a cosmic level.
Anyways, lately I’ve been getting requests to write happy stories. I’ll have to try a demonic harlequin slash romance or something…but my boys tell me what the write…I just tell them what to feel. You just get to reap the whirlwind.
Hopefully, this relationship will continue on for a while yet…
Cheerio and all that rot!!
Welcome to the new home of How do I Write?? Are you Kidding me!!!. Thanks for the heads up on the impending deletion of the RANTS/JOURNAL section. Way tah go by finding little ole’ moi. Mauh!!
So here we go again….This review got me thinking. (Oh the pain the pain of it all!) Insert tongue in cheek here…your choice of whose tongue.
Camui
I debated reviewing this story for two reasons:
A) It's only one chapter, half a thousand hits, and you already have nearly 30 reviews, why get another?
and
B) It's only one chapter, half a thousand hits, and you already have nearly 30 reviews... and it's taken me 7 chapters to get over a thousand hits and 30 reviews. Jealousy much? Plox.
Anyway. I like how it was short, it leaves one nearly begging for more. Such a twist.~ Definitely something worth keeping an eye out for.~ ;D
So what kicked me in the creative cajones? I don’t know why I get hits and reviews but I love them. I really love them because I am a glory hound. Stroke my ego and I’ll do wonders. So I’ve sucked on a couple of Jones Soda Co carbonated candy –green apple flava or pomme verte en francais and thought about it. The only thing I can think of that could account for this is --writing from the heart.
Yes, it sounds like a Hallmark moment, but I think it’s true.
I won’t tell you how many times I’ve been sitting at my keyboard with tears stinging my eyes, or running down my face. I’ve had to get up and leave because the moment had gotten emotional. I’ve been to the other end of the spectrum as well – smex = amorous, laughter and joy. Shaking my booty to some hot rocking little number while trying to figure out how to get Sexy to move. I pour my emotions into my boys and because of that I think my characters must in turn touch something in the Reader.
In my creative writing class we had a discussion about character development and when the instructor informed the class that your characters are a part of you, some of my classmates almost freaked. Their biggest fear was that you were exposing yourself…not in the fun plastic rain coat way.
I think I’ve come to that realization at the beginning of CAKE. I was going through a bitch of a time and, I might have mentioned before, but I worked through a hell of a lot junk I was carrying around with me in that book. So now, maybe I just exposed myself more than I intended but…that was then, this is now.
How you put your ‘EMOTIONAL TRUTH’ out there is key too. I’m getting it out of me and giving it to my characters and they in turn are sort of hiding it within themselves. Am I making sense here? Very few of us wear our hearts on our sleeves while we/characters feel and deal with emotion, unless we are out for an Academy Award or have the emotional control of a two year old (Sex/Armor). Then you have to build a reason why the characters had that particular little emotional trauma whether that be good or bad and those circumstance have absolutely nothing to do with your personal emotional state of being.
Which I guess is the creative writing part eh?
While my characters might have some of my emotional landscape, I’m not a Lycan, a Vampire, A weretiger, suicidal or wrapped up and lost in angsty feelings. Actually since I started writing this way, I am a hell of a lot happier!! The Loyal get to cry a lot but you keep coming back for more. You click and you review and feed my ravenous ego and I make you cry or laugh…well don’t make you, I’m not a bully.
Maybe the characters click with the LOYAL on a cosmic level.
Anyways, lately I’ve been getting requests to write happy stories. I’ll have to try a demonic harlequin slash romance or something…but my boys tell me what the write…I just tell them what to feel. You just get to reap the whirlwind.
Hopefully, this relationship will continue on for a while yet…
Cheerio and all that rot!!