Who's obsessed with writing?

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I love writing! It is easily what I do best. I have a blog where I write all my toughts, but I do not do it in a conventional manner, but rather in metaphors so that they mean something to me, and hopefully other people can find their own meaning in them. I havent updated it in a long time, blame it on laziness.

www.untilimakeasite.blogspot.com

They are unedited however, so I myself havent looked through them thoroughly to make them 'flow' smoother.

enigma, i'm so interested in writing.

are there any CW courses near you? they might be evening classes (sorry - don't know if there are US equivalents, or what they're called). there are quite a few college CW courses in the US, as far as i know - it would be worth your while doing a Google search, as you can specify what you want.

keep writing. and keep reading - it's the best way to improve!

V

cindy - go for it!

one of the women i taught on thursday was in her mid sixties, at least.

V

p.s. and there are at least two aspies on the course .

I love writing! I'm in college English (I'm actually an 11th grader) composition. I write on www.writing.com . My portfolio is at www.writing.com/catffienated . I plan on being a Research Librarian (they work at universities) but also a free lance writer.

I am completely obsessed with writing. Well, stories, actually--film, theatre, literature--that is literally all I care about. The only time I become animated and feel alive is if I'm telling a story, writing a story, or acting one out on stage. All the other little details of life (eating, sleeping, working) are mere formalities to be rushed through in order to get to the next story. I probably wouldn't even condescend to have a job if it didn't offer up so much material and possibility for stories. And since stories can be about anything that occurs in life, I guess LIFE is my obsession. Not life as lived, but life as an author re-orders and interprets it. Life is a constellation of random dots on a pad of paper and we, as authors, get to draw all the little connections between them to form new and insightful pictures others have missed. Where others might see a shapeless, mass of meaningless stars, we're naming new constellations. It has to be the most exciting and most human inclination of mankind. In my opinion. It's encouraging to see so many people passionate about writing and stories.

I'm really obessed with writing. I've written four novels so far. I'm writing my fifth novel now.

I am totally obsessed with writing. When I'm not writing I think about writing. I narrate everything that happens in my head.

My two year old drinks from her juice cup. And I think, "The child drank from her blue juice cup. A rivulet of koolaid ran down her chin. After a final gulp she gasped, "Maw Pweese."

Another example, last night we walked to the grocery store. We passed a restaurant and I narrated it in my head. "The red and orange sign above the Chinese seafood restaurant blinked over their heads."

Or, "The child ran from her mother down the concrete path with a skip in her step. But she got her legs platted and fell down, face first. Her mother picked her up.

"I got muck on my lips, mommy," she sobbed, "I got muck on my lips."

Her mother brushed the dirt off the child's lips and kissed her face.

This goes on all the time. It drives me nuts. I can't stop. My narrative thoughts are always accompanied by a feeling of sadness that I can't capture the moment and find the words to describe each moment as beautifully as I perceive it to be.

I don't think that I am destined to be a great published writer though. I know that other people find verbal expression much easier. My own mother and sister are better at descriptive language than I am. And yet I feel compelled to narrate everything and also feel this sadness that I cannot do justice to the moments I see around me with words.

I have a journal where I collect these moments. From time to time I organize my written fragments. I'm always anxious that I might lose my written work. If anyone were to read my fragments they would quickly grow bored with the lack of a plot. It just goes on and on without any plot. And yet I feel happy with my writing. I reread it myself and enjoy the fragments. I have one fragment about going to a grocery store and unable to find a shopping cart because the store manager had decided to hoard them because, as he told me, people steal the carts.

The problem with my writing is that these fragments do not follow each other in any sort of plot. My fragments aren't exactly poetry, they don't contain deep meaning. So I don't know what to do with them, other than keep them for myself.

I despise writing.

*raises both hands, flails them around like a complete and total loon*

I love writing. Every single chance I get, I write a little more of my novel-in-progress. My goal in life is to write books and see people reading and enjoying them. My plans for the future are to, while writing novels, do a little freelance writing for newspapers and other things, maybe open up or work for a website, to get some money while I try to get things published.

I write not only for my own enjoyment, but for the sheer fact that I love to see people reading and becoming enchanted by my work. I love when people tell me what they liked and disliked, I even like it when they try to start reading my work and then coming back a day later, giving it back, and saying it was too complex. That gives me a little ego boost, but I try not to let it go to my head.

I've been writing for a long time now, scripts, novels, ideas, you name it. I also like sketching a lot, mostly comics, so I can write along with sketching thus giving my writing an extra dimension. However, what's strange is, I'm willing to draw all of my characters in my writing, but, in the work itself, I never give the characters a lot of detail. I only provide abstracts as to what they look like, so the reader has to use their imagination no matter what.

I like reading and comparing what I read to my own work, and I like comparing multiple books.

Writing is something that I do at least daily, in fact, I've got my novel-in-progress open on the other computer in my house downstairs. I'm using my laptop right now, but even now I'm writing. I like writing responses to things I've read, and I like participating in lengthy discussions on message boards more than in real life, because unlike in real life, on a message board, you can write a response as long as you want and no one will stop you in your tracks.

Writing is my absolute euphoria, hands down.

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I write a lot. It's better than speaking. At least, when I write, I can easily sort out my thoughts and better explain myself. I mean, I don't write letters to everyone I speak to or anything, but I tend to write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry at one time, as well as short stories, but these days, I just write a lot on a couple of forums.

Some teachers expressed that my english and writing skills were above average when I was in high school, and my imagination can be extremely vivid, which only makes it even easier.

I'd write short stories, but I hate to read novels. Go figure. I hate literature, but all of that is probably because my reading comprehension is just average. I'd rather not struggle with things I'm never going to use in my life.

- Ray M -

I'm another obsessive writer. I mainly do blogging, some poetry, some novel writing. Nothing published but I'm working on that. I don't write about everything--a lot of my stuff tends to fall into a few categories that I just write obsessively about, such as films, Asperger's, vampires, succubi, psychology, the deterioration of society, etc.

I once used to adore each and every aspect of writng. I would spend hours on end writing text after text – short storys, articles, poetry and so on. And then, after a year or two, my whole writing prosess function sort of shut down. Now a days I will literally spend hours writing a simple sentence. So I guess in that aspect I'm obsessed with writing.

I still like writing – although under pressure I'm usually unable to write anything.

You may have Hypergraphia lol