The Mind of a Writer

[Corissa Maiden of Praise]

Hey, what happened? Did everyone get smart and go to bed? 😀

Well, I’m about to do that to, but before I go I thought of one more strange writer thing I do. When I’m studying for a big test, I put on my long black cape, step out into the back-yard after dark, turn on the bright, eerie back yard lights, and pace, pace, pace. Sometimes I even wear my wooden sword while I pace, or my hunting knife. Being out there after dark, when the sounds of nature kick in and I can’t see the fact that I’m still in the city, it’s almost like I’ve escaped into one of my books for peace and relaxation.

Eh, scratch the relaxation. I don’t enjoy studying that much. 😉 I’m sure if any of the neighbors have seen me out there they think I’m crazy. They’re not too far off either. 😛 😀

"Courage is action in spite of fear."

[SleepwalkingMK]

@corissa-maiden-of-praise @kate-flournoy Oh my goodness. I play out most things in my head, but fight scenes are just too good to resist… even if my mom walks in and thinks I’m crazy… I only have a wooden knife and no access to other weapons, so my imagination helps. I call it method writing XD.

@corissa-maiden-of-praise That sounds fun. I like to do that, except I’m in the house with no cape (unless you consider the blanket I’m wearing). I can imagine the other world around me. I often lose myself imagining I’m in another world (especially the one I’m writing/reading anywhere… in the car, at home, etc. Oh, haha, I live in Romania, which is a few hours ahead of EST, so that’s why I go to bed so early to you guys… it also explains why this post is made so early in the morning 😀
Crazy writing things… well, my internet history is … weird. I told my brother that it takes more than a minute to suffocate someone by hand and he looked at me as if to say, “Why on earth do you know that?!” Yeah. Just something I’d like to be hidden.
And to all you non-NFPs out there, I know we are really emotional, but we don’t make every decision based on our current mood. As Christians, I believe it is our duty to make decisions in a godly way, based on the Bible, and I try to do so. I am emotional, yes, but I also have a logical side (maybe due to living with a logical family). We NFP Christians work hard to not let our emotions rule us and to quiet our imaginations when they bring up sinful thought and images. I am emotional, and I think in words and pictures and music. I wouldn’t want to have it any other way (except maybe if I was good and math and and science). That was long. Sorry XD

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by SleepwalkingMK.

Read to explore worlds, write to create them.

[Anonymous]

Wow I’m sort of scared to join this thread. 🙂 I started reading it, but decided eight pages was too much, so pardon me if I bring up something that’s already been hashed out.

I think we are talking about fight scenes. Call me weird, but I don’t think I’ve ever acted one of mine out. Anyone else with me? Strange thing is I sort of like fighting (like sparing or grappling in karate).

@kate-flournoy I’m an INFP as well! And I know you said this way earlier in the conversation, but I also agree that INFPs don’t really let people into their heads. Do you ever find it extremity hard to share your book related ideas with others? Mabey its just an introvert thing.

[Kate Flournoy]

@Winter-Rose yes!!! INFPs unite! 😀

Yes, I used to. I still don’t share half of them; only the good ones, and then only to @Emma-Flournoy and my mom. Emma isn’t a writer, but she’s been my #1 fan from the beginning, and she’s really helpful with that sort of stuff. 😀
It is difficult to open up to others about my ideas, though. Mostly because I believe in them strongly, and if they somehow don’t see what I do in them I feel (illogically, I know) that they’ve rejected me along with my idea. It’s just easier not to go through that. 😛

And whoever was talking about this (@SleepwalkingMK, maybe) I agree. Mature, Christian Feelers should not make decisions based solely on emotion. Act responsibly, by all means. 😛
Also, a lot of people assume that the Thinkers always think straight and the Feelers are always emotional basket-cases, but most of the time that isn’t true. That particular function, whether you’re a Thinker or Feeler, simply determines how you process information. Through your head or through your heart. And while that does affect the way you act, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have no brains or you have no heart.

INFP. kateeverythingwriting.wordpress.com

[Corissa Maiden of Praise]

@kate-flournoy @winter-rose That probably is an introvert thing; see, as an extrovert, the way I see it is if I share my idea with someone and they don’t like it, that’s their problem. 😛 I mean, obviously I’m open to critique and if there’s actually something theologically or simply logically wrong with my idea, then I’ll give it up or change it. But if they simply don’t like it… yeah. That doesn’t bother me very much.

But I empathize with people who don’t want to go through that, because I understand that it can hurt. I’ve had once or twice when I opened up too much and ended up painfully wounded. To be honest, I still don’t think I share as much as I could because I do have a small fear of being “rejected,” or at least of my ideas being rejected. I think things through really well before sharing them, and make sure that I fully understand as many pros and cons that I can think of, so that I expect and am ready to meet any critique that comes. That also makes me quieter sometimes; it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with me, it just means I’m processing something. 😛 🙂

"Courage is action in spite of fear."

[Anne of Lothlorien]

Okay. This is like… totally weird but AWESOME!!!!! My thread. Okay, so this is gonna be like the longest post I’ve ever done.

So, on the subject of personality types,nI know I’m an ENFP which means I have a margarita mix in my blood, but since I don’t do alcohol, I just take it to mean I have a crazy mix of different things. Now, I am terrible at this MBTI stuff and hardly know anything, but! *holds up hand to stop @kate-flournoy from plunging in to a discourse* I am happy to let y’all have the knowledge. What I want to know is if any of y’all are ENFPs and if these characteristics of mine are right for an ENFP personality.

I am emotional but in a weird way. I don’t cry if someone hits me, or insults me, or something like that in the physical world, but I cry all the time, (literally) at books or movies. Fiction makes me cry more than real life. I cry at everything. For all you Wingfeather Saga people, I cried when Nurgabog, Podo, and Rudrick. Seriously Rudrick should have lived because he was so perfect for Nia and they should have got married and had a little girl named Madie and now I’ll stop ranting.

I don’t like sharing my stories or really anything about writing with my family, only my friends who write. I fell maybe that the people who don’t get what it’s like to write will just think I’m wrong, weird, (though they all ready think that about other things) or my writing is lame, or terrible.

I talk to in-animate objects all the time. I was cleaning my room one time and I found one of the many shiny trinkets I collect on the floor. I swept it up and cupped it in my hands, saying something like this, “So there you are. The quest for you has been going for eight years you know? But at last I have found you, precious jewel. The reward will be mine, and you… *insert cruel smile that I actually did* shall be mine as well.”

I absolutely love being with people I know and talking their ear off, but when I meet someone new, it’s like I’m a clam. Basically I say, uh-uh, yes, I think so, and short comments like that. Which is really weird cause I wonder what I was like when I met @corissa-maiden-of-praise and @hope-ann and people who are my friends now. Did I really mutter to them like that before I got used to them?

I enjoy being with other people, but when I am reading, working, or writing, I absolutely cannot stand being interrupted. I get grumpy, which is something I’m working on, but it’s just me. When I’m in the zone, I cannot take distractions.

I am a good multi-tasker. I can crochet while watching a movie. I can text, read, and listen to an audio book at the same time. I can even hold simple conversations with two people at once! Which is why some of my family think that when I’m not looking at them I’m not listening. But I really am, I’m just listening to someone else at the same time. It’s like I can divide my brain into two sections, (yes I know it already is blah blah blah figure of speech or whatever) and control both at the same time and pay attention. Anyone else do that?

I am super easily distracted. If I close my eyes when I pray, I start thinking about other things. Inevitably. I have to really and I mean really focus on things like school, writing, church, theology class and stuff like that.

I love to play-act and do things when no one else is looking.

So, is that what a ENFP should be like @kate-flournoy ?

On another topic… I have fake fights with my characters all the time. Mostly it’s me being one character and the other is totally imaginary, but one time I had this crazy sequence that used my bed and chair, (which were supposed to be rock formations) and my blanket on the floor (a river) I was two people at once, jumping off the ‘rock’ then climbing back on and thrusting my sword while I jumped then switching back to the other person and leaping the ‘river’ to avoid the sword, the being the other one shooting a bow… and it was like that if you can see it.
I’ve even taken videos of myself doing weird things. One time I stood out of view, then made like I was shot and collapsed onto my bed. Another time I sat on the bed and read a book, then pretended someone crashed through the window and kidnapped me. So I have a video somewhere of me kicking and struggling on my bed with no one.
BTW if you have long hair, do this. Set up a camera so when you can sit down you’re in it’s view. Then start taking a video. Go and sit down in the camera view. Look left, then flip your head so you’re looking right really fast. Then stop the video and play it back in slo-mo. You’re hair will look awesome. Also if you’re a camera person, have a girl with shoulder length hair stand against a door, then jump. Take the picture right as she jumps. Her hair will probably look cool.

On the subject of swimming @corissa-maiden-of-praise I can swim without a life jacket, just not for sustained periods of time, like longer than ten minutes. I can tread water without one too, but not for too long. So there. Life jackets are good, but really really annoying, especially when you feel like everyone else thinks you’re the weird fourtenn-year-old who’s still wearing a life-jacket.

On the matter of camping. @hope-ann, you HAVE to come with us! And if you do, I WILL work it so you, Corissa and I can all share a tent. Then we can stay late up into the night, (later than we all do anyways around the fire) discussing weird writerly things that would probably scare most other people. It is sooooooooo much fun to go to Quaker Haven!!!!! We spend most of our time at the gym, doing four square, or swimming. Seriously, that’s all we do. All day. And it’s heaven! The lake has a part enclosed by docks that only five feet deep at the most. Then at the end of the dock there’s a slide that goes out to a bit deeper water. Then about ten or twenty feet further out in the lake, there a bit of dock with a diving board. I wear a life jacket for that, but not for the slide.

Yes, @corissa-maiden-of-praise and I do crazy things with water. Sometimes we go to the end of a diving board, turn around and do an “Edmund-drop” If any of ya’ll have seen Prince Caspian, you may remember the time when Edmund steps backward off the tower onto the big-bird-thing-that-i-think-is-a-griffin. So we turn around, look behind us, and step off backward. It’s so much fun. And blowing air out til you’re on the bottom of the lake. Wear goggled and look up. It’s sooo beautiful.

And at Quaker-Haven we play four-square, kayak and paddle-boat on the lake, eat around the fire, tell scary dreams at the gym, and we used to be able to walk under the bleachers but they closed it up. And we have a potluck dinner on Monday, and play PIG in the gym and try to tell scary stories at night. @coriss-maiden-of-praise ‘s brother tried to tell the story of the dis-embodied hand that strangled people, but we kept laughing so the effect was kinda spoiled. You. Must. Come. and anyone else that lives remotely near to Indiana. Come. It’s in August, so if you’re the sun-burn type, (I’m not) bring lotion.

On writer weird things, I did this this morning. I was sweeping the porch (terribly domestic of me, wasn’t it) and I looked out on the yard. It was just full of Fall Goldenness. (side note- for all who will understand Fall is gold, Winter sparkles, Spring shines and Summer glows) The sunshine and wet grass was so inviting, so I took off my shoes, held up my arms like I had a partner, and actually started dancing in the middle of the yard! I don’t really know how to dance anything but the box-step, so mostly it was twirls and hop-steps. Then I stopped because the neighbors son had come to get their mail. He stood by the mail-box and stared at me. Then I thought “Why stop? If he thinks I’m weird, so what? I am. If he asks about me dancing, I’ll tell him I’m a writer and see if he takes it. Hey, he’s a teenager too. Maybe he still does weird things like that when he thinks no one is looking.” So I actually grinned and waved, then started dancing again, actually better I thought than before. After about a minute I looked and he was still staring. I stopped, bowed, (I like bowing better than curtsying) and went inside.

I tag @hope-ann @Daeus (okay, if you don’t mind @Daeus, I’ve been dying to know if that’s your real name. Is it? Mind isn’t Anne. It’s a name that is used for both boys and girls, like Dakota. See if you can guess anyone. And how do you pronounce your user-name/possibly real name. I pronounce it dayus. Is it like that?) @corissa-maiden-of-praise @kate-flournoy @Emma-Flournoy @Bluejay @dragon-snapper @winter-rose @sarah-h @Sleepingwalking MK to just read this and respond however you want.

@Daeus can you fill in some names please and may I have some chocolate while you’re at it? I’m out. Thank you.

ENFP - "One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

[Daeus]

I’m not sure it’s an introvert thing. I personally don’t dare to tell anyone my writing ideas except my mom and a few people on here, and even then, I don’t like to share more than a little. If someone disliked my idea, I would take it personally. I’m not that way with most things though. When it comes to logic, I always think I’m right and it is impossible to offend me because you’re wrong and I should be concerned about you, not myself. Art, however, is very sensitive and personal and I never really know if I’m right. Though maybe that is an introvert thing, because I’m quite convinced I become an introvert at times and maybe writing triggers that.

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[Anne of Lothlorien]

Oh phooey I did Hope’s wrong. @hope There. Tagged for all of this.

ENFP - "One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

[Corissa Maiden of Praise]

@hope @sleepwalkingmk @jess

@anne-of-lothlorien So you’re good without a life-jacket now. Perfect! 😀 And the water’s generally deeper than five feet. It was over my head a little at the deepest spot within the docks, so it’s probably more like six feet.

And your poor neighbor boy. Or maybe poor you. He may be watching you with disgustingly romantic thoughts running through his head; better watch out! 😉

"Courage is action in spite of fear."

[Corissa Maiden of Praise]

@Daeus Maybe that’s just something that varies from person to person, with no regard to personality. I would imagine personal experience has a lot to do with it more than anything. @kate-flournoy, what do you think? You’re the Personality Professor around here. 😉 😀

"Courage is action in spite of fear."

[Corissa Maiden of Praise]

When it comes to logic, I always think I’m right and it is impossible to offend me because you’re wrong and I should be concerned about you, not myself

Oh dear. This can be… dangerous. Remember, pride goeth before a fall… 😉

@Daeus

"Courage is action in spite of fear."

[Daeus]

@anne-of-lothlorien Yes, my real name is Daeus. It’s pronounced D-aa(as in ant)-s(with the u pronounced, but just baaaarrreellly) except it’s really only one syllable of course.

But that’s being really technical about it. If you were to pronounce it Dayus, I probably wouldn’t even notice.

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[Daeus]

@corissa-maiden-of-praise Hmm… well yes. There is some danger there, except I’m exaggerating. I’ve been convinced I’m wrong plenty of times before. It doesn’t offend me. The only thing that really offends me in argument is when people ignore what I’m saying and just keep repeating slogans.

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[Snapper]

@daeus I hardly share my writing with anyone either. It must be an ENFJ thing. I mean, there are a few people, but I don’t like sharing it. I tend to be very paranoid in that way. You probably won’t hear much about my books on here. Sorry guys.
And I agree with pretty much everything you said about being introvertish. I’m right even if what I’m saying is probably crazy. Either way, I’m still right, and don’t say I’m wrong.

☀ ☀ ☀ ENFP ☀ ☀ ☀

[Daeus]

@dragon-snapper You’re right. 🙂

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