Pretty boring -- I discovered fandom about 13 years ago. When my friends suggested I write something, I told them, "Not just no, but HELL, NO." :)
Then I got obsessed, and decided that I needed to make my BSOs happy, and since the only way they could possibly be happy was with each other, then I started writing slash. I got into fandom through slash, anyway.
The problem was, even though I wanted to make them happy, writing didn't come naturally or easily. It wasn't much fun, even though once in a while I felt compelled to do it. Weird, eh?
I take pictures, too, and THAT came naturally, which is why it's still TONS more enjoyable than writing . . . which, at last count, sucks less than ever before right now.
This is thirteen years later, mind you, and a couple weeks ago I told the woman I'm writing with, "Well, that was fun!" . . . and I actually meant it. A first.
I think it's because this is the first time I ever did the "writing from the Id" thing. We were just paddling around with no goal in mind, especially not the idea of ever posting it, and I was just putting down all the crazy ass things I'd love to see in a story. All the other times, I had a specific goal that I was writing toward, and if I got to a point in the story where I couldn't get from here to there, I just had to wait until something resolved itself in my mind so I could continue on.
This led to taking a really, really long time to write a story. :)
You know how some people say they don't bother to write something if they already know what's going to happen?
I have been the polar opposite.
I finally got my writing partner to understand how painful and unpleasant writing was when I realized it myself. "I don't write from the Id, I write straight from the Internal Editor." Not so much fun, overall. Maybe I've broken that habit at last after all these years.
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Date: 2011-04-09 01:16 am (UTC)Then I got obsessed, and decided that I needed to make my BSOs happy, and since the only way they could possibly be happy was with each other, then I started writing slash. I got into fandom through slash, anyway.
The problem was, even though I wanted to make them happy, writing didn't come naturally or easily. It wasn't much fun, even though once in a while I felt compelled to do it. Weird, eh?
I take pictures, too, and THAT came naturally, which is why it's still TONS more enjoyable than writing . . . which, at last count, sucks less than ever before right now.
This is thirteen years later, mind you, and a couple weeks ago I told the woman I'm writing with, "Well, that was fun!" . . . and I actually meant it. A first.
I think it's because this is the first time I ever did the "writing from the Id" thing. We were just paddling around with no goal in mind, especially not the idea of ever posting it, and I was just putting down all the crazy ass things I'd love to see in a story. All the other times, I had a specific goal that I was writing toward, and if I got to a point in the story where I couldn't get from here to there, I just had to wait until something resolved itself in my mind so I could continue on.
This led to taking a really, really long time to write a story. :)
You know how some people say they don't bother to write something if they already know what's going to happen?
I have been the polar opposite.
I finally got my writing partner to understand how painful and unpleasant writing was when I realized it myself. "I don't write from the Id, I write straight from the Internal Editor." Not so much fun, overall. Maybe I've broken that habit at last after all these years.