Who cares, do what makes you happy. Capitalism has tricked us. You don’t have to be good at something to do it. Not everything has to contribute economic value.
Oh yeah for sure! I’ve had jobs before where I’ve done my hobby for a living and it makes me not want to do it for fun anymore. I’m gonna keep the writing just for me.
I was good at writing , I once wrote as a child a short story with black comedy that my dad who holds a PHD in the General Linguistics and a professor of the arabic language my native language at my country’s third largest University didn’t believe I wrote , and claimed I got it from the internet
so I switched to engineering and now I can’t write shit or even think properly
Oh yeah, I had a teacher in High School ask me if I downloaded a story I wrote from the internet too. Luckily it was the 90s and our house didn’t even have the internet yet so that was easily disproven lol.
I tried writing. The process of writing fiction, of the characters coming alive in front of me and telling me the story they want to tell was fascinating. I didn’t expect that. I’d come to section of dialog and I didn’t need to write it, it was no effort at all because the characters were just talking to each other. Sure, I did the earlier work of defining them and creating backstory, but once that was in place, they took over. I’d make a mistake, and I knew it was a mistake because the character would tell me, “I wouldn’t say that. That’s not me.”
Once, I finished about four pages of dialog between three characters, and when I opened the file again, it was gone. I was devastated, because I didn’t think I could do it as well again. Fortunately, it wasn’t gone, Libre Writer was just formatting the pages strangely.
It doesn’t matter whether anyone else reads it or thinks it’s good. The process of writing is fulfilling in itself, and well worth the time spent.
Oh yeah, it’s always such a cool feeling when a character surprises you with something they do or say as you’re writing them do it.
The other one I like that happens to me sometimes is when I read back something I wrote a day or two ago and there’s a line in there that makes me go “Where the fuck did that come from?!” and I have no memory at all of writing it lol.
Drawing, I was actually good at it.
Writing for me. I mean I don’t know if I’m any good at it, but I like it.
Who cares, do what makes you happy. Capitalism has tricked us. You don’t have to be good at something to do it. Not everything has to contribute economic value.
Oh yeah for sure! I’ve had jobs before where I’ve done my hobby for a living and it makes me not want to do it for fun anymore. I’m gonna keep the writing just for me.
I was good at writing , I once wrote as a child a short story with black comedy that my dad who holds a PHD in the General Linguistics and a professor of the arabic language my native language at my country’s third largest University didn’t believe I wrote , and claimed I got it from the internet so I switched to engineering and now I can’t write shit or even think properly
Oh yeah, I had a teacher in High School ask me if I downloaded a story I wrote from the internet too. Luckily it was the 90s and our house didn’t even have the internet yet so that was easily disproven lol.
I tried writing. The process of writing fiction, of the characters coming alive in front of me and telling me the story they want to tell was fascinating. I didn’t expect that. I’d come to section of dialog and I didn’t need to write it, it was no effort at all because the characters were just talking to each other. Sure, I did the earlier work of defining them and creating backstory, but once that was in place, they took over. I’d make a mistake, and I knew it was a mistake because the character would tell me, “I wouldn’t say that. That’s not me.”
Once, I finished about four pages of dialog between three characters, and when I opened the file again, it was gone. I was devastated, because I didn’t think I could do it as well again. Fortunately, it wasn’t gone, Libre Writer was just formatting the pages strangely.
It doesn’t matter whether anyone else reads it or thinks it’s good. The process of writing is fulfilling in itself, and well worth the time spent.
Oh yeah, it’s always such a cool feeling when a character surprises you with something they do or say as you’re writing them do it.
The other one I like that happens to me sometimes is when I read back something I wrote a day or two ago and there’s a line in there that makes me go “Where the fuck did that come from?!” and I have no memory at all of writing it lol.
Draw some and post em here if you want some encouragement.
Drew this as a christmas gift for my nephew
It’s a manga character, I forget the name of her.