WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 10 -- Monday

[linaewen]

Greetings on Monday!  What kind of day was it for you today, writing or otherwise?

Did you write?

• Yes!
• No!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in?  If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits?

For Discussion:  I'm going to reference Tolkien again for today's discussion question.  Tolkien’s interest was originally languages.  He loved to create his own languages based on more ancient ones of which he was intimately familiar.  He followed his interests enough to create entire cultures based on these languages and then wrote stories about them which then became legend.  He wrote about what interested him most.  Do you let your interests drive your writing?  Have you ever tried to write something that you weren't especially interested in?  How successful were you at that?

Comments

[barbayat]

I wrote just a few words, but today my mood is generally down the drain ... and I need to work on a paper but I just go ..................................

Mostly I write about what interests me, I focus on characters I like and address problems that concern me or I find important. Sometimes I think I need to expand a bit more to topics that are of interest to others though ...