― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
augh
― j., Friday, 12 July 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
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
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
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
otm
― flopson, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Writing is least fun when you've got an audience in mind.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
I hear it helps if you imagine they are naked.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Erotica will never be my forte.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Not if you write children's books
xp
― Evan, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
What about grotesquerie?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
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!
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Then nakedness is only one eldritch state of many.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
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, 12 July 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
(This is what makes my contributions to ILX so very, very chefkiss.jpg.)
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
the only good writing is posting
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Pretty much. What did people even read before message borads existed?
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Shredded Wheat nutritional panel is only good for maybe 2-3 close readings and then I'm out.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Try the romance copy on the opposite panel. Real tear jerker.
― Evan, Friday, 12 July 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
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
― flopson, Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
― 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
― flopson, Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
I like rite gud
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 July 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind” - my man John Muir
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 July 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
Def
― calstars, Sunday, 14 July 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Muir's livelihood was grounded in the money he earned from his writing, mostly for periodicals. Hence, the eternal grind.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 15 July 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link