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Relatives brought it up when I was younger as something I would be very good at doing, but being a writer is never something I thought of as a career choice, or even a long-term hobby, because writing books is HARD. Now I crave the ability to write and create, and it just seems so impossibly far away. sadface.

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Strange, I had the same impulse today. Randomly, the thought popped up into my head - being a writer. The creative and freedom(ish) side of it sounds tempting, and my parents have tried to convince me to keep writing for the longest time, but like you said, it's freaking hard, and this writer's block has turned into a somewhat permanent state...

I find now that creativity doesn't come into my occupational life any more (grown up and all that, woe) I need to find it more and more in other parts of my life. I've loved crafts for as long as I can remember but it's only recently I've been making more and more things; I made loads of stuff for people around Christmas. It is freaking hard, and I always wonder how people are taught it when it's meant to be so ~creative, but there you go. How does on start fighting writer's block?

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How about collaborate writing, the two of us? Compensating for each other's writer's block somehow? :)

Have been thinking about this collaborate writing, and I really like the idea. If we both put into it, it could really go somewhere :D What would we write?

I know what you mean, because I've wanted to be a writer for so long and now I feel further away from that dream than I did about five years ago. But if it's something you really want to do, don't give up on it because it's hard. Too many things in life are hard.

When I was younger it was just a thing you could be, but it was never a thing *I* could be. I'd love to do it as a sideline project but I fear that would mean I'd never devote enough time to it and it'd end up abandoned by the roadside. Proverbially speaking. The thing is, at least I know how to give up; knowing how to not give up is hard in itself. I like that though, it might be my new motto <3

Writing books does seem impossibly hard. But you could start off with short stories, and work up from there? (Not that short stories aren't hard too, sigh.)

I don't know how novel writers do it - thinking about writing that large of a story just makes my head hurt.

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Short stories... any kind of story... it used to make a lot of sense to me, seemed simple, if not easy. And then you look at the short stories Roald Dahl wrote, or Allan Alhberg even, and how they've made the reader think things, or led them to believe something is happening when it's actually this other thing, and how they can make a reader suspend belief for the shortest of time, without any build up, and it becomes something completely amazing. It's the same thing as poetry in a way, the right words in the right order and all that, and somehow even after you've done that, it's all knitted together so tightly. THAT is the bit that doesn't make sense now; cohesion is my weak point.
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("That large of a story"? How long was your Charity fic again? :P)

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