Writing is simple and HARD. · 12:53am Jun 16th, 2015
It has been a few months since I wrote my last blog. I just want to say that writing is hard. Now the act of writing isn't hard, I can write with ease. If I'm writing with pen or pencil my arms eventually hurt. But if I type up stuff, writing is fairly easy. I'm even writing right now! There is just a teeny tiny problem though, and that's the fact that my writing isn't living up to the standard I've assigned to my writing. This isn't just some arbitrary standard I've assigned randomly to say that my writing actually has some resemblance of quality. Trust me, it isn't. If it were such a low standard I would have published all my stories I've written and dropped.
I've made the requirement that my writing must do the story idea that I write justice. I have plenty of ideas. But what I write just isn't showcasing the concepts of my stories the way that they should. I'm in a creative writing course and while my writing has improved because of it, I still don't feel that it has improved enough. I haven't gotten anything less than 100% on each creative writing assignment (so far) and yet my writing feels flat. It--to put it bluntly-- is in desperate need of something. My writing is missing something and while show vs tell is my sole prominent issue, I just can't come to an understanding of it. I can describe what show vs tell is. I can explain how it works and when to show compared to when to tell. But. I just can't come to grips with my writing.
I think the true issue is voice. My writing lacks a voice. It is lacking my voice and I don't know how to fix that for I have no unique voice.
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Anyway, I'll try fixing it as I work on a story called Unification Day. The story is about four griffons who are given--and I use the term 'given' VERY loosely--the abilities to use a specific type of magic. They were subjected to terrible experiments by doctors who wanted to see the unifying and creating the next great Griffon Empire. The story takes place five years after the research facility had been destroyed and almost everyone involved killed. The four who did survive attempt to achieve the goal many have forced onto them; much to the chagrin of Celestia who has done everything in her power to keep the Griffons from forming their own unified country. I've also thought about writing a story with a friend about a pony trying to learn how to write with the goal of creating the next great science fiction masterpiece. While it may sound like a meta story, it is not. The goal of the story was to showcase the struggle learning how to write can be, especially when one is trying to live up to expectations. The story was/is also about trying understand the importance and purpose a life can have and the friendships he/she can create. I have a friend I might try writing it with. I think it would do me a lot of good to write it, but ... who knows.
Hopefully there will be a new story up before the next blog, but if not? See ya then kiddos! Also, there may or may not be a re-write for the vampony story coming down the works. Keep your eyes open for that potential beauty!
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I know it says I have 20 followers, but do I really have 20 living followers? I don't feel like I do.
