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 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:33 pm
The number of 'fatal' illnesses for writers (as I call them) has a large number of different faces.
The most common one - Writer's block. Everyone knows it, and everyone hates it. It's hated so much, we've come up with a title for it that all writers recognize.
My personal illness is not writer's block. I have the problem of wanting to imagine my story, but not always wanting to put it into words on the computer... I'm lazy like that xp
So my question is: What are your 'fatal'/'deadly'/most hated writing 'diseases'? And - more importantly - how do you overcome them?
Just trying to start a topic sweatdrop the forum is in need of them! biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:08 pm
I believe that my illness is quite similar to yours.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:31 pm
Not being able to write what I'm wanting to write.
I tend to have these great ideas in my head, these elaborate scenes and events but whenever I sit down to write them they don't want to come out right.
Generally it stops me from writing anything else because I'm so focused trying to get my idea down in writing.
To get over it I generally just set it aside for a week and pick it up at a later (if I'm inspired).
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:40 pm
I have this problem of having a scene playing in my head, down to complete sentences and dialogue. The second I pick up a pencil, or go to type?
Bam!
Disappears. >>
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:32 pm
Rayne Skyver Not being able to write what I'm wanting to write.
I tend to have these great ideas in my head, these elaborate scenes and events but whenever I sit down to write them they don't want to come out right.
Generally it stops me from writing anything else because I'm so focused trying to get my idea down in writing.
To get over it I generally just set it aside for a week and pick it up at a later (if I'm inspired).
*Sigh* I think everyone has that problem too... I know exactly what you mean. Trying to find the perfect words in the perfect order to tell your readers exactly what you're trying to... it's a pain sometimes. My tactics are different though... I'm not sure if it's the same as you, but my main problem with that kind of thing is not being able to think of the right words. So I get to an online Thesaurus of some kind and browse similar words until I find a good one. Maybe try that out if you have that problem again biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:03 pm
gonk Indecisiveness. I'll have one idea in my head that I plan out and end up being satisfied with. Then I start thinking about it more and it ends up changing to something else. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:55 pm
The dramatic flare I have, but my drama tends to be quite elaborate and complicated, more political these days than huge worldwide disaster drama.
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:00 am
Mine is finishing my work. I'll start it, and then it gathers dust. A lot of dust. So much dust that not only have the dust bunnies formed, they have enough to gather an army and are now plotting to take over my room. gonk
Oh, and dialogue. Sometimes there's not enough, sometimes there's too much, and usually it all sounds cliche.
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:08 am
I think my biggest fatal illness is that fact that my imagination is greater than my vocabulary. I can imagine, for example, amazing different areas in deep space. Actually describing them in a way that does them justice, on the other hand....
....of course, it's only my first draft, after all. smile I tend to add more and have better description the second, third, fourth time through then the first.
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:20 pm
'Illness' #1: It's already been mentioned. I can plan a story out in my head to my heart's content, but the second I sit down to write it I lose all of my motivation. I have a notebook with five or six pages of things to put into a small thing I'm working on, but I haven't gotten past the first page of the actual thing.
'Illness' #2: Tied to the first by one point, I have a severe lack of motivation when it comes to writing...except for when I'm with my one friend. And the friend that inspires me, I haven't been able to hang out with much.
It's not fun, but I've been trying to push myself every now and then to write anyway. And it does help that after I've hung out with my friend and written, I tend to want to keep writing for the next few days. It's refreshing.
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:59 pm
Ah yes, those fun things..
One would definitely be inspiration.. It never goes according to what I want to work on.. It especially doesn't help when I want to finish a story but end up starting a new one with no relation to any of the other ones I have going -flails arms- or if it has relation, I can't figure it out well enough in my head to make it work properly so it doesn't sound stupid trying to tie in the different books together
In that same vein, I have wonderful ideas, but as soon as I try to put them down on paper so I don't forget, they're either already gone or they're still going so I have to get down those then go back and try to remember how I started out to get to that point
Ah well, I'll get it eventually
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:45 pm
Does anyone have an issue with not being able to write if there is someone reading over your shoulder???
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:05 pm
hm well... I don't know... I hardly ever have writers block unless it's something I don't' want to write like school work, but even that I seem to do rather quickly and have no problem...
I guess it would be having a lot more ideas them I do time to write them down.
Also like death writer i can't write when someones over my shoulder, it's annoying, and i hate letting people read my work before it's done...
also I'm dyslexic, it's a common writing issue that people actually have...
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:08 pm
My main problem is my writing just dies. I used to play scene in my head like a movie, but any more I can't even do that. I think it's just work/life related so given time that one should resolve. I also am super critical of my work. I have to get it right the first time. I know that's not right. And of course the problem of trying to translate a great scene from my head to the paper.
I'm sorry, I have a lot of illnesses.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:59 pm
Lord Zy My main problem is my writing just dies. I used to play scene in my head like a movie, but any more I can't even do that. I think it's just work/life related so given time that one should resolve. I also am super critical of my work. I have to get it right the first time. I know that's not right. And of course the problem of trying to translate a great scene from my head to the paper. I'm sorry, I have a lot of illnesses. I feel like the weight of the day is too heavy to write at night or in the afternoon. The stress of day-to-day living as I get older is too much, I have too much to do. Because of this, I always write my best at 5 in the morning. I don't look look at my email, or the guild, I don't turn on the TV, I get up, pull up my story and my outline, and then pull up dictionary.com to have on hand. smile I can write for hours just because my head is clear so early in the morning.
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