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20/f. I'm open to advice from anyone at this point, I'm kinda stuck.
A little background on me: I've always used writing as an outlet, whether it's to dream up my future husband, or play out a scene before it happens to see how it'll turn out (my writing's also had a habit of predicting events, if I use people I know as characters.) My other two major creative outlets are singing and drawing, all of which I'm equally good at...but all of which I'm equally stumped on.
I was reading some of my old writing, and I found it to be...overwhelming. One of my stories was written entirely out of my control (my characters took over), and it's just SO good. I can't figure out how to just let go like I did to write that story. Where my prose used to flow smoothly, it's now choppy and flat, and I can't stand it. I hate my own writing, and that bothers me to no end.
I intended to use this break from classes to get back in touch with my ability and remind myself why I love it so much, and I feel like I don't even know where to start.
Can anyone relate?
Does anyone have any useful advice?
Thanks...
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I think it is interesting and probably right on, that you think your best writing was when your "characters" took over. I have found over a lifetime of reading, and a little writing, that the characters that build the story are much more engaging than the authors that created them. Think of all the really great stories that you have read... would you rather meet the characters in the story, or the author? I suffer from the same star struck notion that everyone does. What makes this author tick, but after looking into them, or meeting a few, I really like the characters much better. If you like the characters "writing" the story better than "you" writing the story, then chances are, others will too! How about writing about what happened to one of your "writing" characters, the day after they took over your story telling? This may put you back into their head and let them tell a little more of the story. Good luck... I love a great novel!
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I know it's right on. That's HOW I used to write. My characters shaped my stories, I had nothing to do with it. I know that writing is better, I know everyone likes it. It's not like those characters "tell me a story" and then disappear, but they're always part of the same story - they don't have lives outside them. I wouldn't expect you to know that though. Thanks for trying anyway.
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