Writer's Block: Born to do it
17 April 2011 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlode[Error: unknown template qotd]Probably writing (I note that most other people seem to say this -- perhaps not surprising in response to a prompt entitled 'Writer's Block'! -- but that was actually my original reaction).
It's hard work, difficult to motivate yourself and dispiriting when it goes badly, but on the plus side it can be done almost anywhere (unless you're one of these computer-dependent modern people who can't handle a pen and some random scraps of paper for text input...), and you get to live some wonderful or possibly harrowing experiences at the same time as your characters. After all, what other profession offers the combination of playing God and being a voyeur?
(I would say that it's the only job that offers omnipotence, but even fictional characters have a nasty habit of getting ideas of their own or else flatly refusing to co-operate with the requirements of the plot!)
It's hard work, difficult to motivate yourself and dispiriting when it goes badly, but on the plus side it can be done almost anywhere (unless you're one of these computer-dependent modern people who can't handle a pen and some random scraps of paper for text input...), and you get to live some wonderful or possibly harrowing experiences at the same time as your characters. After all, what other profession offers the combination of playing God and being a voyeur?
(I would say that it's the only job that offers omnipotence, but even fictional characters have a nasty habit of getting ideas of their own or else flatly refusing to co-operate with the requirements of the plot!)