Being a Writer
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
March 2, 2016 8:02pm CST
Being a writer is fun and at the same time could really be hard. Because honestly, it forces you to be someone that you are not. Example, when you are writing a comedy or humor genre story. You should be the comedian yourself and the annoying character who always uses cheap and lame jokes just to highlight the very joke itself on the story.
Or you should be that annoying leading lady who can't choose whether to love the boy he already is with or the boy he had been with for the challenge all this time and live a better life.
As a writer, you should also live as the cold-hearted person that looks cool at the eyes of the girls or other boys.
Being a writer can be fun too because you act, you think, you change your way of thinking and broadening it and most of all, you bring the story into life by relinquishing even your own character. A great sacrifice for the entertainment of humanity if I would say so myself. How about you? What can you say about writers?
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@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
3 Mar 16
i used to have a personal blog but couldnt maintain it due to my full time job. it wasnt that easy indeed especially when i started writing for something im not interested or well-educated just to get paid.
aside from blogging, i was part of my school paper as an editor for lit but one time they asked me to write an article about technology. it took me a while to finish it..
@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
4 Mar 16
@Rianel_Lewrej thats nice. who knows when you graduate you'll be earning more
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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4 Mar 16
@MGjhaud Hopefully that will happen you know. Still hoping to make everything work. Step-by-step.
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
I also manage a blog, but I don't let my school and work be affected in it. I only blog when I am free and when I feel like it. Though my blog earns little, at least, I know that at the end of the month, I can still enjoy the perks of being blogger/writer and maintain my work-life balance.
@indiandevil (2410)
• Canada
3 Mar 16
As someone who writes myself I totally agree with this. The writer does get into the heads of all characters, in order to make it believable. I myself even had to go as far as moving from the city to the country, because of this. As I have to constantly be in the heads of my characters, I find myself laughing out loud when I am alone writing, at other times crying depending on the scene I am working on. Because of this when I lived in the well populated city, most of my neighbors thought I was a bit mad.
I guess in away they are right. In order to be creative enough to be a writer, you do kind of have to be a bit mad. With all these people in your head, talking to you all at once.
@indiandevil (2410)
• Canada
3 Mar 16
@Rianel_Lewrej Indeed. It wasn't the only reason I left the city either. It was only one factor. I found there were too many distractions there that kept me from writing my best.
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
@indiandevil So, after moving to a less populated place, were you able to concentrate on working on your novel?
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
We are all mad somehow, it just depends on how other people accept it. But I must agree, you must feel what your characters are feeling and you must liven up the personality of the characters.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
3 Mar 16
When we write, we bring a little bit of ourselves into each character. The Comedian has always been in us, we are just letting her (or him) run free. The criminal is our deepest and darkest desires come to life. All of the characters we create are still a part of us.
I don't believe we have to force ourselves to be anything that we aren't already. If you are forcing yourself you aren't writing.
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
But some of the writers could always relate to that, and there are quiet a lot of writers who feel that way. Me too if you're going to ask, But we could always create a good story that people like. It's not about forcing yourself to write, it's about forcing the characters to come out alive.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
3 Mar 16
@Rianel_Lewrej We are getting lost in translation.
I am saying that you should not have to force the characters out. If they aren't coming naturally than it isn't meant to be written.
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum I see. That makes everything clear. However depending on the scene, some people have actually forced the character to come out. Like for example, Sasuke Uchiha from a story called Naruto. (Surely you might have heard the story)
@Letranknight2015 (51969)
• Philippines
3 Mar 16
There's a lot of things on my head but i couldn't compile it in novel. I can't believe i've been writing for ten straight years and still I'm an amateur 
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
Oh wow. Ten whole years!? So what are the stories about? And we can't really say we are an expert unless we are confident with our own works and skills. And sometimes, without the comment of other "more expert" in the field of writing.
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
I write novels. But I also blog most of the times too. :D How about you? What kind of blogging do you do?
@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
3 Mar 16
Exactly!! I mean if we didn't live in the heads of our characters how do we do justice to them? It would be like writing everything mechanically without any expression of emotions and such.
@Rianel_Lewrej (225)
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3 Mar 16
I agree. We portray them as their character because we wanted to make sure that they have given a life in reality rather than on the story only. It's a bit hard to do, but a fun experience in the long run.
