QOTD #51: How do you feel when you write?

Agree alot with what Martian says. It depends on what I'm writing. I don't completely hate my technical writing, more so that I hate the tight ass deadlines I'm given.

Creative writing has always been a means of escape for me. With all of the adult responsibilities and demanding career, getting away physically is consistently difficult. So when I write for personal projects, I take advantage of the time.

 

I'm extremely self critical about my writing. It never comes out as well as I'd like. Toss in an inability to proofread my own work* and I pretty much detest it.

* I mentally "fill in the blanks", I know what I meant to say.

 

I suppose it depends what I am writing.

Most of the writing I do these days is work related. I don't feel much of anything when I am writing that sort of thing.

I would like to write more for pleasure, but I haven't taken much pleasure from writing lately. I know I should just write, but I'm not motivated.

These days writing feels like a chore, or at worst empty.

 

This pretty much covers it.

 

Graduate school killed all of the joy and fun I found in writing. My dissertation was stripped apart and dissected and rewritten until I lost ownership. I lost the fun in writing.

 

I don't have any real mandatory writing that I do, it's all just the voluntary things I happen to do for my own reasons. Some of it's more personal stuff, which has tended to be more from a negative place, but writing about it has been beneficial I think. Other things I've written when I've gotten random motivation or an idea about something isn't nearly as negative. It can be a struggle at times to focus and put my thoughts into a coherent 2 dimensional structure that has the flow of beginning to an end.

 

Writing is creative and therapeutic for me. It brings me joy and can bring me peace. I most journal (aside from beauty and travel writing)