Thread: How Does Writing Make You Feel?

Before, during and after?

I feel like a kite high up in the heavens! You?

__

It's just an escape really. I live a fairly normal life so I love to write to just show that I can be fun and exciting. It frustrates me though, I like to be the best in what I do and writing isn't the profession to go into if that's the case. That won't stop me loving it though. =]

While I'm actually in the act of writing I don't feel much either way, my mind gets empty, and I'm just focused on what I'm writing. I feel pretty good when I've finished something, though.

I laugh at my own jokes, and every now and then I think 'Man, I am really something.'

OR 'Man, I am a hack.'

I really get into my characters head or the mood, lost listening to a song over and over, really moopy, or really giddy. If I am brainstorming and I am on the roll, it might seem like I am high, just with a keyboard.

High sounds about right. Happily focused. I love it.

Irritated, mostly.

Before writing, in the brainstorming stage, where you can sit there in one place for an hour straight while your mind is creating an imaginary world and scenarios and characters, I feel like I just ate one of Aunt Mary's special brownies. Out-of-body.

During writing, it can depend on whether or not that funnel coming down from my world in the clouds is blocked with self-doubt that smells like constipation. If things are groovin', and my fingers flying across that page, then I feel pretty giddy. I lose track of time in that happy zone. I don't eat, because I know that if I get up and move, I might lose that light I been working in.

After writing (again, depending) I'm ususally satisfied at the commitment, even to bad writing. I'm eager to begin a new direction tomorrow. I'm also anxious at how critical I'll be of the story. Usually, I'm pretty hard on myself.

How Does Writing Make You Feel?

Whole.

Productive

Content, frustrated, satisfied, excited, disappointed -- occasionally, elated.

I could write for half an hour and feel any or all of those emotions.

I've never been a 'feely' type of person and never have any special 'feeling' when I'm writing. Writing is just something you do, like breathing or eating.

Fully occupied, time passes and I don't realise it, people speak to me and I don't hear them, at the writing stage it is very antisocial.

I have been criticized for my disturbing content - there is a reason behind it, though.

When I am writing all those horrible things, I am re-living an episode of my life that may only share a tiny grain of semblance to the story being output, yet the incident is there and I am pouring out all the vile affluence stemming from the incident that has been ensiled in my brain. My characters get to say things I normally do not say in the real world; unbelievably, I do possess some great degree of decorum (usually). Despite my life and the nature of my stories, I am actually a very mild-mannered, quiet person. I do get upset, but only on rare occasions. Someone really has to push me.

When I am done, there is usually a sense of catharsis. I feel better. I am pretty sure I won't find a venue for most of the awful subjects that are the focus of my writing, but it does something positive for me.

I would guess that I'm not the only one.

Originally Posted by Fox80

I have been criticized for my disturbing content - there is a reason behind it, though.

When I am writing all those horrible things, I am re-living an episode of my life that may only share a tiny grain of semblance to the story being output, yet the incident is there and I am pouring out all the vile affluence stemming from the incident that has been ensiled in my brain. My characters get to say things I normally do not say in the real world; unbelievably, I do possess some great degree of decorum (usually). Despite my life and the nature of my stories, I am actually a very mild-mannered, quiet person. I do get upset, but only on rare occasions. Someone really has to push me.

When I am done, there is usually a sense of catharsis. I feel better. I am pretty sure I won't find a venue for most of the awful subjects that are the focus of my writing, but it does something positive for me.

I would guess that I'm not the only one.

That sounds plausible, but only until one stops and asks oneself why people perceive a need to share that catharsis by going online. It could just as easily be written offline. More easily, in fact. In other words, I don't believe the excuse. Some other agenda is involved.