Is your writing affected by your moods?

i find 'happy' stories nauseating, so i would most probably prefer to read something you've written than those 'happy' stories. it's even better you can write 'sad' things when you are happy. maybe you are the next stephen kings, so gives people the creeps while being perfectly normal.

I have a hard time writing when I'm happy, actually. Happiness, especially the heavenly kind that seems to come about when I'm in love or in relationships, seems to be very destructive to my inspiration for writing. Probably because, I prefer to write particularly dark, angsty, and bloody stories...and because my process involves feeling the story as I go. Which is easy enough, as I can usually call up those emotions at will -- it's just that happiness has a bad habit of tearing all that apart on me. That's not to say that I don't enjoy my writing. Because I do very much. There's no better satisfaction, to me, than finishing a book...or especially, a series. I find it easier to stay sane, when I have time to write, and when I'm in love or in relationships is no exception to that. Writing is something I need and something I have a passion for. If I ever thoroughly loved a skillset, I love writing. I tend to write after midnight. I've always been a chronic insomniac, so I tend to have some late or odd hours. But I seem to be able to write the most in the morning between ten and noon. I have no idea why. Maybe my mind's just fresher? My darker stuff still comes to me after midnight though, so I dunno. *shrugs*

Yes, my writing is affected by my moods. I find that I write best, when I'm feeling low, or something like that. During those moments, I find that I write a lot better than when I'm happy, and such. I'm really not sure why, but it's just the way that it is. It's the way that I write.

yes same here for me i write depending on my mood or my feelings i feel it much easier to write a poem or a story based on your mood becuase it seem like the word just keep on flowing and you never really have to think seems like magic that you just get a pen or type on your keyboard and you have a masterpiece, sometimes when you need to write something and you are not in a mood of doing this the word seems very hard to find you might finish it eventually but the outcome will be as good as if your in the mood to write the pieces.

I can relate to this very well. Yesterday, I was writing a romantic poem when all of a sudden I shifted gears and made it look philosophical. This has happened to me a lot of times. Of late I feel I have started writing dark fiction. Well, this can actually be attributed to what I am reading, presently. When you read something that really makes you think and sort of confuses the hell out of you, you don't know whom to show the anger on. That I guess is the reason I have started writing on metaphysics and philosophy ;)