1. La Motivación para Escribir.
La escritura de ficción surge como una necesidad de explorar otros mundos, procesar la vida, como un escape terapéutico o simplemente por el puro placer de crear historias y personajes.
- Writing fiction. Sometimes, i have to work through my life's noise by exploring other realms and possibilities on the page.
- Writing fiction. I honestly just love creating stories and since i'm only fairly decent at art, words are where i put my skill points.
- Fuck i love writing. I love creating things. I love being inspired by other people and inspiring others in turn. I love the process, i love story, i love imagination; i love using the fictional to inform the real, i love how fiction helps teach empathy. I love it!!
- Writing fiction is my escape from the difficulties of life. I forgot how wonderful it felt to create and to immerse myself in another place and time. I’m glad i found it again.
2. El Proceso Creativo y sus Desafíos.
El acto de escribir está lleno de altibajos. Los escritores se enfrentan a personajes que cobran vida propia, la frustración de la autocrítica, el bloqueo creativo y la constante batalla contra la duda.
- It's doing my head in! i want to get a first draft down but the characters have minds of their own. Which, i suppose, is a good thing, because they feel more real.
- Tonight we are yawing between "wow i love this book idea and am so happy to be writing it" and "this is never gonna work i can't do this" on an approximately every 15 minute cadence. Fiction writing is the best.
- I'm writing fiction for the first time in many years and it's gratifying, but also frustrating. Words used to come when i called them and do what i asked them to do and that is just not happening right now. There is some literary atrophy that needs to be addressed.
- Nothing kills my enthusiasm for working on my fiction more than reading over my fiction, lol.
3. Ficción vs. No Ficción.
Muchos escritores transitan entre la ficción y la no ficción, descubriendo que cada modalidad requiere un conjunto de habilidades y un enfoque mental completamente diferentes. Lo que funciona en la escritura técnica o académica a menudo no se traduce directamente al arte de contar una historia.
- I've been dabbling around with this, and it's very funny noticing my small writing habits- that work fine in non fiction- absolutely crash and burn in trying to tell a story lololololol.
- Looks like just the thing i need. As i’m discovering, fiction writing requires a whole other skill set to non-fiction writing.
- I write a decent amount of nonfiction for my day job and i will say that writing fiction is light years harder.
- Ive done so much academic writing i fear i've forgotten how to write fiction, but i have written 5 papers on frankenstein so thats something, surely!
4. Explorando Géneros y Formatos.
El universo de la ficción es vasto, abarcando desde la ciencia ficción y la fantasía hasta el terror y la ficción histórica. Los escritores experimentan con diferentes formatos, como novelas, cuentos cortos y microficción, cada uno con sus propios desafíos y recompensas.
- I love writing short fiction as little brain breathers from the novel.
- Me: i'm going to write an epic web novel multiple pov sci fi next brain: .what about hard boiled detective fiction?
- I used to write creative nonfiction and literary fiction and came to the conclusion that my writing was in fact getting in the way of my mental health. Now i’m writing a fantasy novel.
- What do you write? i, too, am a writer. Short fiction. Mostly horror or horror adjacent.
5. La Satisfacción de Crear.
A pesar de las dificultades, la escritura de ficción ofrece una profunda sensación de logro y deleite. Desde la alegría de perderse en una historia propia hasta el orgullo de finalizar un manuscrito, el acto de crear es, en sí mismo, una recompensa.
- I understand. Writing at least a little fiction every day makes me feel like i have at least accomplished something.
- I've written a lot of (unpublished) fiction and the sheer delight of losing yourself in a story completely crafted for yourself is wonderful.
- Finally writing fiction again for the first time in almost two years. Feels good, man.
- Feeling a sense of accomplishment: today i submitted a manuscript for a historical fiction novel to my publisher. Should hear back in 2-4 months.