Why is writing fun?

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Writing is rewarding when you do it well, but it can only be fun if it incorporates an element of play. This sense of wordplay can and probably should come naturally, but it is often extinguished by the injection of strong ambition, competition for praise, and the imposition of editorial judgments about what is good, better or best. Someone who is under pressure to perform seldom feels that their task is full of fun.

For a shining example of writers having fun, see A thread where you commission a poem from ILE

Analytic writing makes me smile. It is a pleasure to compose sentences.
Creative writing makes me want to impale a fork in my skull.
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, March 1, 2005 3:57 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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Writing is least fun when you've got an audience in mind.

I hear it helps if you imagine they are naked.

Erotica will never be my forte.

Not if you write children's books

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What about grotesquerie?

I like it when my pen makes the funny marks on the page. Oh, how it makes me laugh and sing to see the funny marks!

Then nakedness is only one eldritch state of many.

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Writing became more fun when I finally incorporated it into my daily routine. Once the initiatory act no longer required intentional effort and just became a thing I did regularly like eating or weeping in despair for a fallen world, I was able to forget about the more mechanical parts of the process and just, like, roll with it, baby.

(This is what makes my contributions to ILX so very, very chefkiss.jpg.)

the only good writing is posting

Pretty much. What did people even read before message borads existed?

Shredded Wheat nutritional panel is only good for maybe 2-3 close readings and then I'm out.

Try the romance copy on the opposite panel. Real tear jerker.

i think twitter has made me a better writer in some way. especially the 140 era (rip). not sure about ilx. my academic writing is strong relative to my peers and i take great pleasure in it; it’s a fun game to try to inject just the right amount of style while maintaining the dry tone and technical correctness

Writing became more fun when I finally incorporated it into my daily routine. Once the initiatory act no longer required intentional effort and just became a thing I did regularly like eating or weeping in despair for a fallen world, I was able to forget about the more mechanical parts of the process and just, like, roll with it, baby.

― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, July 12, 2019 2:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this is probably the biggest influence of ilx, in terms of writing. reading ive aped all my styles from you guys

Contemporary English's (acquired, not innate) tendency towards dryness and consummate transparency drives me up the wall, although it's a useful corrective when grafted onto other, less cost-effective languages.

I like rite gud

“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind” - my man John Muir

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Muir's livelihood was grounded in the money he earned from his writing, mostly for periodicals. Hence, the eternal grind.