How strong you feel when you write? (tense, grammar, quote)

[Asexualgirl]

When you are writing... How strong you can feel? Do you have strong emotions or physical feelings? How deep you are in to world you are writing?

[tomkat26]

It depends on what i am writing. Some stories I don't feel anything, other stories I feel so strong about it for a second I think that it is real. So i guess it depends on the topic.

[nightbird47]

This depends on the stage of the work. The first draft I try to go deep into the character and don't spend much time worrying about spelling and grammar and typos. I figure I can edkt the words to be better but I want the emotional content. Second draft I start cleaning up the writing itself and yet remain close to the character and their world. Third time around I get picky about the right word or the tense of the verb and fix the spelling. But that is about language rather than story.

I find that I tend to get intense in whatever stage of writing no matter what it is. I can write for hours and not even notice the time anymore.

[Asexualgirl]

Originally Posted by tomkat26

It depends on what i am writing. Some stories I don't feel anything, other stories I feel so strong about it for a second I think that it is real. So i guess it depends on the topic.

When I was kid I liked when I read some book and then that was like a movie. Now when I write I am not satisfied if I do not get the same feeling.

[Nighteyes]

I agree with the "it depends" statement. I do a fair amount of business and technical writing/editing. No real involvement there, other than my strong desire to do it well.

However, some of my short stories and novels carry a pretty intense level of involvement. In fact, for fairly long periods of time, the story line seems to write itself. I also experienced that with poetry in my late 20's and early 30's, but not very often since then. (I suspect the poetry instances were fueled by an over-abundance of testosterone, you see... )

Occasionally I have had characters "seize control" and write themselves, and the scenes they were in, in a way that was quite different from my original intent. And THAT, my friend, spells "involvement" in capital letters! [Besides, it can be kind of spooky, especially when they turn out to be better writers than you are... ]

Regards as always,

-- Nighteyes

[gentlearts]

When I'm on a roll, I feel so invested in my charactors that I can't bear to leave them for long. Then, as I get closer to the end, I become plagued with self doubt about whether or not it is any good, or if it is only self indulgent crap.

[Trimac20]

Yeah it's a strangely consuming sensation to truly live in this fantasy world you've spun merely with the power of language.

I think with novels and long stories your characters really begin to have a reality of their own.

[Nighteyes]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I think with novels and long stories your characters really begin to have a reality of their own.

No shirt, shylock...!

[Stumbler.]

In high school, I remember for quite a while I wrote and drew a comic strip story every week with reoccuring characters and ongoing plot (it was somewhat of a silly comic though it had a really complex storyline).

My best friend at the time, who I eventually gave the huge set of papers to keep by the end of graduation (he eventually went to study in another country and we lost touch) once told me, unintentionally that he got so attached to one of my comic characters that at a church dinner he had second thoughts about eating the type of animal that I had depicted as a character in the comics, and I laughed.

[alexgh90]

Whenever I write , I sometimes find myself crying , I don't know why. I guess it helps me in a way to stay focus.