Writing as a phenomenon.
Mar. 31st, 2003 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aruanEvery author should be as lucky to have such generous feedbackers as I do.
Ri: you know, just when i think i know what to expect from your writing, you go and completely blow me away
Ri: you did a fantastic job, hon
I'm so shocked and excited that people seemed to like this story. It's an interesting departure for me in that the first chapter was inspired by an impending shopping trip, the mood from my vicarious sympathy about the effects of horrid lighting in supermarkets, but the rest is almost entirely free-based: I'm writing to see things, and the story is seemingly springing from that, not vice-versa.
Me: is that okay?
Ri: i think so
Ri: i think it's great that you're going with this
Me: so i should let them have their way with my words, eh?
You know that thing authors talk about, when they claim the characters are in the room with them? I never get that. But this is cool, watching things unfold in my head, all lush imagery and detail and they speak to me there, with actions rather than words. What they want to happen played out on the canvas of my imagination, actions spinning themselves into words, which is great because how much does it rock to be able to give people what they want? And being on the same wavelength is a special sort of rapture all its own.
Ri: you know, just when i think i know what to expect from your writing, you go and completely blow me away
Ri: you did a fantastic job, hon
I'm so shocked and excited that people seemed to like this story. It's an interesting departure for me in that the first chapter was inspired by an impending shopping trip, the mood from my vicarious sympathy about the effects of horrid lighting in supermarkets, but the rest is almost entirely free-based: I'm writing to see things, and the story is seemingly springing from that, not vice-versa.
Me: is that okay?
Ri: i think so
Ri: i think it's great that you're going with this
Me: so i should let them have their way with my words, eh?
You know that thing authors talk about, when they claim the characters are in the room with them? I never get that. But this is cool, watching things unfold in my head, all lush imagery and detail and they speak to me there, with actions rather than words. What they want to happen played out on the canvas of my imagination, actions spinning themselves into words, which is great because how much does it rock to be able to give people what they want? And being on the same wavelength is a special sort of rapture all its own.
