WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 9 -- Sunday

[linaewen]

Greetings, linaewen at your service for this new week of checking in!  I don't usually post this early when it's my turn for it, but I'm having a bit of insomnia, so I thought I'd go ahead start things off for this week.  ;-)

Has today been a fresh start for you, the first day of a new week of writing possibilities?  Tell us how you spent your day, writing or otherwise.


For discussion:

J.R.R. Tolkien once said in a letter,  "I wrote the Trilogy as a personal satisfaction, driven to it by the scarcity of literature of the sort that I wanted to read."  Is this a good description of why you write?  Why or why not?

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[krait]

J.R.R. Tolkien once said in a letter, "I wrote the Trilogy as a personal satisfaction, driven to it by the scarcity of literature of the sort that I wanted to read." Is this a good description of why you write?

In a word? Yes. (It's also why I read so much fanfiction -- fanfic authors write the kind of stories I want to read and can't find in pro fiction, at least not in quantity.)

I subscribe to the Steven Brust Cool Theory of Literature: I write stuff that think is cool, and whether you like my writing or not depends on how much overlap exists between your definition of cool and mine. :D

I suspect it's why I like kinkmemes so much -- seeing what other people think is cool/want to read, and finding prompts that overlap with my own preferences, is like this huge dose of enthusiasm: oh, wow, someone else wants to read X? I've wanted to read X for, oh, forever! I should write it, and this person and I would be friends!

[krait]

Well, I suppose for full disclosure I should add that there's one thing I've written that did not have that premise as its basic. That one was a kinkmeme fill for an odd pairing, one I'd never even considered before and didn't even like one member of, and I still can't adequately explain why I read that prompt, thought, Huh,... and then churned out 2k words on the subject without stopping. All the while not knowing where it was going till my fingers hit the keys.

The rest, though? Very much What I Want To Read.