State of the Writer, July 2024!

Can I even call myself a writer anymore? Well, I certainly had trouble getting to sleep last night because I was writing a story in my head! XD Now I just need to transfer it to 'paper'...

anyway, I forgot I was writing this and I'm about go to shopping with my mom, see you laterrrrr~

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[Art Inspired]

If I can still call myself a writer, you can, too.

[iisaw]

"I certainly had trouble getting to sleep last night because I was writing a story in my head!"

Oh yeah, you're a writer. No doubt about it.

More importantly, you're a story-teller. There are a lot of people who just write things down, and you might turn to those works next time you're having trouble sleeping.

[Themaskedferret]

The best writing advice I've heard from a published author is that: If you think about writing and story ideas, even if you don't write it down, you're a writer.

Writing is not just about putting words on paper, it's about rest and getting ideas and inspiration and wanting to write but being unable to. It's everything in between "I have an idea" and "I wrote an entire story"

(I am grossly paraphrasing as I don't recall their exact words ^^;)

[KMCA]

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I will take that. I've definitely had a few books pass through my head.

[Themaskedferret]

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Precisely! Folks who don't write think writing just means putting words on the page. But as someone who knows and admires many authors, it's clearly a lot more than that. The same way a painter needs time to get inspiration and prepare their tools, why shouldn't a writer be the same? n_n

[Impossible Numbers]

There's always "theoretical narratologist". It's when you spend days, weeks, and months planning the concepts. Then you get promoted to "applied narratologist" when you go to the page and start colliding particles of narrative together to see what happens.