Talking About Writing Is Not Writing

[redbrunja]

So, when I queried my flist about what subjects they wanted to come up more often on their flists, the writing process came up several times.

In lieu of writing this out three or four times, my two cents on the issue at this precise moment in time:

I am tired of hearing about people's writing process. Sometimes it's helpful, but bottom line, everyone writes differently, and I would rather focus on actually writing my own fiction than talking about how other people write fiction.

Comments

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not a "how to write" kind of person.

Though I am always intensely interested in talking to people about their ideas and how they took a simple idea and transformed it into whatever the final piece of work was. :) Or the meaning behind certain parts of their work. Like I was reading a comic book script the other day and the author would make all these notes in the text to talk about the psychology behind certain parts or how one part was inspired by something that happened to him when he was young. That was cool.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

A lot of time I've very interested in other people's process, but not so much the moment, and it's all over my flist.

Like I was reading a comic book script the other day and the author would make all these notes in the text to talk about the psychology behind certain parts or how one part was inspired by something that happened to him when he was young. That was cool.

That sounds VERY cool.