Aries - - when have you felt the most confident in your writing? when have you felt the least confident?
The most confident I’ve ever felt about my writing came when my creative writing professor [ aka the most amazing man i’ve ever met ] talked about my writing. He was constructive, but so enthusiastic about my writing and my process and my words. I remember going to his office for a conference and he handed me an award I’d won for a piece I’d submitted and I almost cried because he gushed for fifteen minutes about it. His confidence in me rubbed off a bit.
I feel very unconfident about my writing for so long. the doubt keeps creeping in at the edges. whenever I can’t find the exact wording i want and get frustrated, I think it’s not worth it. when I feel like I can never get anywhere with the words, I feel lost. when I watch videos about how hard it is to get traditionally published, I wonder if I’ll ever “make” it. so in essence, if someone is hyping me up, I feel very little confidence.
on the other hand, i write for myself, so i don’t really need to be confident at the moment.
Pisces - - how do you visualize scenes? do you see it like a movie in your head, or do the words just flow?
it’s really a combination of both. some days, I see a scene so clearly it is like a film is rolling and the words just fit together. other times I have a feeling I want to invoke so I struggle with the wording to get the atmosphere just right. Some days I don’t know how to say 1600s gold hued Baroque ballroom with lens flare and chilling organ music. Other times, it is less about what a scene looks like and more like what it feels like. sometimes it's war just working through how a scene should move, flow, fit together with other scenes. other days it’s a puzzle, trying to fit together certain threads and weave them together, i ask myself, can this character really be here? can this character say this? have they learned this yet? it’s all kind of complicated and messy, which matches my drafting style, so it works.
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