Writer's Rants

[Angelo Credo]

Ugh - just gone back over an old story I started about 4 years ago and I have no idea how to even begin to end it without being cliched, crappy and anticlimactic. I hate endings...

I hear that, I have about 8 40 page+ long stories sitting unfinished on the hard drive of my desktop, never finished because I can never work out how to end it without it sounding clichéd, contrived and utterly crap, it's a shame, because there's a lot of my work that I'm quite proud of, just never been able to finish.

Also on another note, why do I seem to NEVER have the time or patience to get round to finishing a story? Or an RP? College is over now and yet I still don't want to do a damn thing, I don't wanna RP, I don't wanna write a story, I can't feel any of the creative goodness that I used to get.
I'm starting to get worried that I'm falling into a depressive rut again, I went through the same sort of thing, where I couldn't write anything out of lack of motivation, and that extended into my everyday life too.

I just really can't seem to find a reason to start anything these days.

 

[Nicodemus Zamoran]

Also on another note, why do I seem to NEVER have the time or patience to get round to finishing a story? Or an RP? College is over now and yet I still don't want to do a damn thing, I don't wanna RP, I don't wanna write a story, I can't feel any of the creative goodness that I used to get.
I'm starting to get worried that I'm falling into a depressive rut again, I went through the same sort of thing, where I couldn't write anything out of lack of motivation, and that extended into my everyday life too.

I just really can't seem to find a reason to start anything these days.

I go through that kind of thing constantly. What I do is try my best to keep my mind occupied so I don't think of the depressing matters. Constantly switch to a new task, or multi task, which really keeps the mind active enough to keep away from depression.

 

[V]

I guess I stopped writing because my style is convoluted, not too user-friendly. Stuff written in scripts or parodies or slash always seems to get the attention, as opposed to me trying to exercise my vocabulary in Poe-like style, haha.

Also, I'm horribly self-critical. I can read something over a few weeks after writing it and its cringeworthy to me. So hardly any of it has ever survived to this point.

 

[Daring Dylan]

You know what I hate? I hate how all of my stuff is depressing as all hell. It seems my depression makes it ways into my stories. And I write to get AWAY from my depression, so I can't get away from it. I tried writing a dark humor story, it was just dark. :/

 

[Angelo Credo]

You know what I hate? I hate how all of my stuff is depressing as all hell. It seems my depression makes it ways into my stories. And I write to get AWAY from my depression, so I can't get away from it. I tried writing a dark humor story, it was just dark. :/

Funny that, a similar thing happened with something I wrote, I was writing up a funny, flamboyant, well dressed bisexual man going through various difficulties in life, I wanted it to be a comedic outlook on how hard life can be, in the end I wrote about how he was constantly teased, bullied and picked on by his friends, disowned by his family and ended up killing himself. ;_;

I really liked Lucien, too. ._.

 

[Daring Dylan]

Funny that, a similar thing happened with something I wrote, I was writing up a funny, flamboyant, well dressed bisexual man going through various difficulties in life, I wanted it to be a comedic outlook on how hard life can be, in the end I wrote about how he was constantly teased, bullied and picked on by his friends, disowned by his family and ended up killing himself. ;_;

I really liked Lucien, too. ._.

Something kind of like that happened to me when I was writing Derek's character. He was SUPPOSED to be how you described Lucien, but fully gay. He doesn't kill himself, though. He's suicidal, depressed, and a super pessimist. ;_;

 

[Angelo Credo]

Something kind of like that happened to me when I was writing Derek's character. He was SUPPOSED to be how you described Lucien, but fully gay. He doesn't kill himself, though. He's suicidal, depressed, and a super pessimist. ;_;

Things never seem to turn out as planned do they? I write for the same reasons you do, to get AWAY from being depressed, yet it seems to work its way in there somehow, and then I look back at what I wrote and thing "What the hell? This isn't what I wanted."

I really never intended to kill the character off, it just kinda happened. ;_;
I might bring him back though and try again.