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What is your favorite thing about creative writing?
For me, it’s spending time getting to know and explore interesting characters and new worlds. The best writing sessions for me are the ones where I feel like I’m being transported into a new world and I’m the main character. Through words I can go on adventures and meet cool people and do cool things.
I also love the feeling when all the once confusing and jumbled pieces of the story finally fall into place into a cohesive and beautiful picture. Writing stories is like doing the world’s most hardest, but also the most rewarding and spectacular jigsaw puzzle.
I could go on about the things I love about writing, but I’ve already gone over my limit of only saying my one favorite thing about writing. Oops. Well, I asked the question so… I can answer it the way I want. XD
@kathleenramm I’ve never really thought about this, but I guess just the fact that I can create something, and this thing that I’ve created is my own. In the end, it’s just a bumble of incoherent thoughts in my mind, but it’s mine, to enjoy or to destroy or to do whatever I want in it. As I’m reminded by J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay on fairy tales, we are unique in that we can create things, almost like how God created the world. So, yeah. Just making things, escaping to places… I suppose that’s what I like most about it.
Lately, it's been on my brain
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If hours don't turn into daysLove the way you put that. One of the most unique things about being human is the ability to create, and to glorify God through art.
Oh, and I never got to tell you my thoughts on your web novel! It was awesome! It wasn’t like anything I have read before, and although it was short, the friendships and emotions hit. The beginning and the end were my favorite parts. It’s been days since I’ve finished it and I’m still thinking about it! I honestly can’t wait until your next project is finished.
@kathleenramm Aww thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed! I’m hoping to finish my next one in a few days but unfortunately I feel like I don’t have the same control over longer works than I do shorter works. You know?
Lately, it's been on my brain
Would you mind letting me know
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Aw, man…why do all the interesting posts have to be old? *frowns with a distinct whimper and the application of puppy dog eyes* Well, no matter, for I shall take advantage of them anyway, even at the risk of annoying people! (Something I’m quite good at, actually. Definitely an important part of my charm.)
Anyway…after taking an English 101 class last year, I really got a taste of uncreative writing. So, technically, I think one of my favorite things about creative writing (because I loathe uncreative writing, to be frank) is being able to bend the rules. You can start a sentence with and. Why, your entire sentence could be and–not something I would do, but you catch my drift. I like having free rein over how I write, even though I certainly stick to the set rules of grammar and punctuation.
But, outside of technicality, I love how close you can get to creative writing, how deeply what you write can become ingrained in you. I’ll never look back on my college essays and think, “Oh, I just love this!” and then go share with my children. In fact, I have a hard time remembering what half of them were about, let alone holding them close to my heart. Sure, you can feel for a subject, but the words? I don’t know–it’s different. You do have a tight rein on what you can and should write. You can’t write dialogue or introduce characters or contrive plots or employ gorgeous prose or build worlds. Sure, you can inspire or provoke people with a speech or an argumentative essay, but there’s something stirring, deep and abiding, in the words that stem from the imagination rather than knowledge and information. I’ll always remember my characters–each and every one of them–and every beat and every word and every laugh at the jokes only I would get and every tear I shed over something only I will understand. My stories, my creative writing, is as much a part of me as my arms or my legs, except it’s not connected to my hip bone or my shoulder bone–it’s connected to my heart.
Creative writing is a song, the lyrics and melody, the harmony and cadence. Anything else is lacking.
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