I see that as a strength, not a weakness. It's your voice, your approach.
This isn't my voice; this isn't my approach. This isn't a weakness or strength, it's an unhealthy focus.
pure muse flow without inspiration (or intellectual input) can simply produce self-indulgent crap
I don't think we mean the same thing. For me, "pure muse flow" produces the best writing. Because *I* don't write, I just type, and the texts are always better. My own self-indulgent crap comes from *me*; pure muse doesn't. It just flows. It's like we mean the exact opposites.
I haven't been able to make myself clear in this post, it seems, and not just with you.
Better to do it than not, if that's the only option offered. If you can't write on your chosen terms, write on any terms you can.
This muse thing, to me, is the *best* option. It's not my chosen terms, but I don't care about my terms, because I enjoy the process in various ways, and I enjoy reading the final product. I enjoy the words.
What I do when I can't get into this state, is I try to write on my own. Like I said, many can't tell the differences in the end results. *I* can. I still write because, like you said, better than not writing at all.
When I write that sort of thing
Again, we have a miscommunication. By "stuff that makes me shudder, or makes my beta cringe", I didn't mean bad quality. I do have bad quality things, but that's not it. What I meant is angst, torture; *contents* I don't enjoy writing, that Cat doesn't enjoy reading. Specifically, at the moment, a kind of dark writing that is related to one or two events in Buffy (that I won't share here with you, of course).
The prompts, and my mood, lead me to write about it (self-indulgent in ways, of course, but more wallowing in pathetic misery of writing). I want to do other things, but keep being drawn to that; that's what I meant in the original post by "picking at the same wound".
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Date: 2008-03-12 02:45 pm (UTC)This isn't my voice; this isn't my approach. This isn't a weakness or strength, it's an unhealthy focus.
pure muse flow without inspiration (or intellectual input) can simply produce self-indulgent crap
I don't think we mean the same thing. For me, "pure muse flow" produces the best writing. Because *I* don't write, I just type, and the texts are always better. My own self-indulgent crap comes from *me*; pure muse doesn't. It just flows. It's like we mean the exact opposites.
I haven't been able to make myself clear in this post, it seems, and not just with you.
Better to do it than not, if that's the only option offered. If you can't write on your chosen terms, write on any terms you can.
This muse thing, to me, is the *best* option. It's not my chosen terms, but I don't care about my terms, because I enjoy the process in various ways, and I enjoy reading the final product. I enjoy the words.
What I do when I can't get into this state, is I try to write on my own. Like I said, many can't tell the differences in the end results. *I* can. I still write because, like you said, better than not writing at all.
When I write that sort of thing
Again, we have a miscommunication. By "stuff that makes me shudder, or makes my beta cringe", I didn't mean bad quality. I do have bad quality things, but that's not it. What I meant is angst, torture; *contents* I don't enjoy writing, that Cat doesn't enjoy reading. Specifically, at the moment, a kind of dark writing that is related to one or two events in Buffy (that I won't share here with you, of course).
The prompts, and my mood, lead me to write about it (self-indulgent in ways, of course, but more wallowing in pathetic misery of writing). I want to do other things, but keep being drawn to that; that's what I meant in the original post by "picking at the same wound".