Often I get very frustrated by writing and I start to want a different art to be closer & come easier to me.
Music or painting maybe.
I wish I had musical talent for one thing.
But writing has always been the easiest, the default.
I get angry about the need for plot.
I never plan events in stories. It reminds me of the drudgery of outlining essays in highschool...
What I want to do is capture moments, feelings -
not so much events in sequence.
Because life is not plotted.
If you plot your life, you're one of those Super-Efficient Businesspeople or something who never have any fun. It's not about efficiency.
ARGH.
Maybe I just shouldn't try to think so much when I am not feeling well. I just get depressed and frustrated.
2 comments:
Think of it this way, if you were to try and capture ONLY the moment it would turn into a single word on a page such as "Exciting" "Sad" or "Dynamic" and then THAT turns into a fight between you and a dictionary to find a single, meaning compressed word (which is what causes people like me to abandon the whole ordeal and make up my own) in an attempt to invoke a feeling into you and/or the reader. Truth be told meaning comes out of a series of events put together (what you would call 'the plot'). People can relate better to a series of events anyways. I mean what average person knows the dictionary definition of clandestine? And wouldn't it be funner (<- hehe) if someone were to have a clandestine chest with a box full of items with hidden meanings and stories?
I just need to comment an apology for my last two comments. They were very much in the voice of a certain someone who taught us in high school. <(-.-)> I must be depressed today if I am writing like that.
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