Labels: author talk

Labels: author talk

How's my day? Nobody asked. Today I just finished write up baseline code for my website's page that will visually showcase my interests. Oh and also uhh supposedly I write about RSS Feed but since now having new school of thought tonight, it'll go the draft purgatory for now oop. Anywayyy, I just watch this video that encourage people to write more creative non-fiction. And not gonna lie, it indirectly gives me answer on a lingering thought I had for quite awhile now that I'm back into blogging.

You see, I.. don't see myself as a /writer/ writer (in context of fanfiction writer here) and more of a Backstreet scriptwriter as I seem to not fancy on writing the way what you expect when you open a fic. Mine's is the form of dialogues; direct declaration on who's currently talking, which seems to be quite mocked format if say you publish it at fanfiction dedicated sites. So I don't do that anymore and publish it to my blogs instead. While it's not that big of a deal, I still yearn for concrete answer on its reasoning outside of it being my preference. "I gotta be more than that!" said my brain. When watching the aforementioned video, suddenly a thought appeared in my mind where I might be actually fond of the script format when writing fics due to sheer rawness it feels to me. Imagine if a fic is a website, my writing style is pretty much can be described as a website made of pure HTML and minimal CSS, nothing more, maybe less.

Which is the very same why I able to write in super long essays when blogging or fine going through endless coding height but not so much on writing a fic. When you're coding, their logical functionality - plus your overall understanding and familiarity of them - will decide whether you'll get the result you want or not. Missed punctuation? Boom, the code won't run. 'Position: relative;' not in the CSS of an element? Boom, element suddenly not responsive. You get the idea. Whereas when you're writing as yourself speaking outside fictional realm (think of journaling for example), the only definite obstacle you'll have is well, yourself, in my opinion. Yes sure there could be other factors too but that one depends on each individual, right? Therefore, for me, the less bureaucracy happens in my brain when I'm writing the more extensive my output will become.

Writing a fic however, feels like an art of written puppetry to me - usually between two puppets but may vary depending on the story in question. Say you want your story to be deliberately enjoyable for others, there's likely be the need to make your puppet(s) be as appealing as possible, the need to have your puppetry skill be as entertaining as possible, the need to run the show where the venue and stage in-line to very craft you dearly want to express. The amount of information traffic happened even just for a one-shot truly melt my creativity tank level had I forced myself towards conventional format. To put it simply, I'm just not that guy sobsss. Respect for folks who can write dictionary-thick fic. Such sorcery definitely possible with love, care and passion to the core. XD