MasileinDE wrote:
oh yeah, definitely
because you can really focus on the plot, before you have to start working on character development and setting. I find it also very easy to find your own style and find what settings you enjoy writing. I dabbled in a couple of musicals (Tanz der Vampire (it's the musical version of the Polanski movie Fearless Vamirekillers), Cats and Beauty and the Beast) and then slithered (see what I did here?)over to Harry Potter (well, now you see, gosh, I probably spoiled the pun)
I did feel tempted to write about other fandoms very often, but I just never follow through. the magic somehow is gone and I really don't know how I should keep it alive. Though I have this one plot in my mind for about a week now and it's driving me crazy, because it's imo a very sweet one, but it would be something I have literally no fucking clue about and I don't feel like writing about something I can't even do proper "research" for it, because it's such a personal matter
Juniper wrote:
and maybe you’ll be interested in writing again someday ✨ I have months where I barely write at all but this year I’ve been trying to be more consistent
MasileinDE wrote:
Here we go.
I used to write quite a lot. I started with poetry when I was 10 (trying to cope with life, mostly with my grandpa having cancer and being on his death bed). Then at age 14 I slipped into fanfiction. Now don't get me wrong, I knew about it earlier, but that's when I got motivated to try writing some for myself.
Although I kinda see German as close to my mother tongue, when I started, the language still felt a bit strange to me. So I liked using writing to broaden my vocabuary and just getting used to working with words differently. Grammar does come fairly easy to me in German and also a bit in English, but it's not really something I'm concentrating on. As I'm no native speaker, I do make the occasional weird mistakes (like weird phrasings that make you go "I know what she means, but that just isn't quite right"
, so I never really focussed on getting that fixed too much. I really loved working with the setting, the modd, the emotion. It was something I really had a lot of pride in, people were always complimenting me on my descriptions and how I described emotions on a very raw level.
Now, in case you wonder why past tense, well I kinda stopped writing a couple years ago. Wiriting for me always was a means of escape from my life. I used it, because my life was shit and I had no other ways to cope. But then I found happiness in life and suddenly writing started to feel like a chore. I do write sometimes, small little things (my writing energy mostly gets focussed into blogs or witty short stories I tell my friends, when we are bored). I still use my narrative skills sometimes - just two weeks ago I was telling a friend of mine the story about how Nero burned down Rome and compared him to the Trump of Ancient Rome (because he wanted to make Rome great again). My friend was having a blast and told me, she really learned many new things that day. But it's not really something I'd love to pursue. (My mom told me I should dabble in comedy, like satire and such, but I truly dislike the public part about it and writing for someone else just seems wrong to me.)
So, long story short, I rarely write anymore. I do have some stories I am very proud of, for various reasons even. I mean, there was one time when I managed to write a very gore-centered scene, that was kinda hidden. Like, it started with something akin to sex and ended with the obvious phrase "but now she's dead and I have to find a way to get rid of all the blood", which makes it clear, that it wasn't about two lovers but a murderer and their victim. I also still come up with plots that I'd love to read about and I often talk them through with friends, but I don't have the energy to write them myself.
My inspiration often came from the fandoms I was writing for (though I do have quite a few stand-alone pieces - most of my works aren't finished) and kinda writing about my dreams or what I felt was missing in other fanfictions. There are a few authors that kinda inspired me, though I feel like most of the time, it wasn't really an obvious inspiration, more of a byproduct of reading a lot by that person during a certain time.
When I was writing a lot (so basically between the ages 14 to 17), I did have a file binder with a bunch of notes and segments on the stories I was working on. I would often get ideas in the weirdest places (my math teacher really wasn't impressed with me being more interested in my binder than in the blackboard) and then in the evening or on the weekends, I would type all my handwritten notes into the computer. It actually helped me save quite some time, because I could use that moment as a first revision step and my first drafts could be written on the school bus (which was usually a 50 minute ride, so really worth it).
I haven't written much in english, but I can see if I find my Repo - the genetic opera fanfiction? Though I'd have to send it to people privately, because I doubt I could link to it openly on VP, it's also very gory and messy.
I find it rlly interesting how lots of writers start out with fan fiction I guess it’s one of the best ways to get into writing Here we go.

I used to write quite a lot. I started with poetry when I was 10 (trying to cope with life, mostly with my grandpa having cancer and being on his death bed). Then at age 14 I slipped into fanfiction. Now don't get me wrong, I knew about it earlier, but that's when I got motivated to try writing some for myself.
Although I kinda see German as close to my mother tongue, when I started, the language still felt a bit strange to me. So I liked using writing to broaden my vocabuary and just getting used to working with words differently. Grammar does come fairly easy to me in German and also a bit in English, but it's not really something I'm concentrating on. As I'm no native speaker, I do make the occasional weird mistakes (like weird phrasings that make you go "I know what she means, but that just isn't quite right"
, so I never really focussed on getting that fixed too much. I really loved working with the setting, the modd, the emotion. It was something I really had a lot of pride in, people were always complimenting me on my descriptions and how I described emotions on a very raw level.Now, in case you wonder why past tense, well I kinda stopped writing a couple years ago. Wiriting for me always was a means of escape from my life. I used it, because my life was shit and I had no other ways to cope. But then I found happiness in life and suddenly writing started to feel like a chore. I do write sometimes, small little things (my writing energy mostly gets focussed into blogs or witty short stories I tell my friends, when we are bored). I still use my narrative skills sometimes - just two weeks ago I was telling a friend of mine the story about how Nero burned down Rome and compared him to the Trump of Ancient Rome (because he wanted to make Rome great again). My friend was having a blast and told me, she really learned many new things that day. But it's not really something I'd love to pursue. (My mom told me I should dabble in comedy, like satire and such, but I truly dislike the public part about it and writing for someone else just seems wrong to me.)
So, long story short, I rarely write anymore. I do have some stories I am very proud of, for various reasons even. I mean, there was one time when I managed to write a very gore-centered scene, that was kinda hidden. Like, it started with something akin to sex and ended with the obvious phrase "but now she's dead and I have to find a way to get rid of all the blood", which makes it clear, that it wasn't about two lovers but a murderer and their victim. I also still come up with plots that I'd love to read about and I often talk them through with friends, but I don't have the energy to write them myself.
My inspiration often came from the fandoms I was writing for (though I do have quite a few stand-alone pieces - most of my works aren't finished) and kinda writing about my dreams or what I felt was missing in other fanfictions. There are a few authors that kinda inspired me, though I feel like most of the time, it wasn't really an obvious inspiration, more of a byproduct of reading a lot by that person during a certain time.
When I was writing a lot (so basically between the ages 14 to 17), I did have a file binder with a bunch of notes and segments on the stories I was working on. I would often get ideas in the weirdest places (my math teacher really wasn't impressed with me being more interested in my binder than in the blackboard) and then in the evening or on the weekends, I would type all my handwritten notes into the computer. It actually helped me save quite some time, because I could use that moment as a first revision step and my first drafts could be written on the school bus (which was usually a 50 minute ride, so really worth it).
I haven't written much in english, but I can see if I find my Repo - the genetic opera fanfiction? Though I'd have to send it to people privately, because I doubt I could link to it openly on VP, it's also very gory and messy.
and maybe you’ll be interested in writing again someday ✨ I have months where I barely write at all but this year I’ve been trying to be more consistent
oh yeah, definitely
because you can really focus on the plot, before you have to start working on character development and setting. I find it also very easy to find your own style and find what settings you enjoy writing. I dabbled in a couple of musicals (Tanz der Vampire (it's the musical version of the Polanski movie Fearless Vamirekillers), Cats and Beauty and the Beast) and then slithered (see what I did here?)over to Harry Potter (well, now you see, gosh, I probably spoiled the pun)
I did feel tempted to write about other fandoms very often, but I just never follow through. the magic somehow is gone and I really don't know how I should keep it alive. Though I have this one plot in my mind for about a week now and it's driving me crazy, because it's imo a very sweet one, but it would be something I have literally no fucking clue about and I don't feel like writing about something I can't even do proper "research" for it, because it's such a personal matter



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