Content vs. Creator

[CatrionaGrace]

Sometimes, you can read too much into what people write.

Truer words never spoken.

Some people delight in scandal and drama. If nothing's going on, they invent it and make other people miserable for the sake of their adreniline rush. Everyone probably would be better off if the scandal mongers took up writing fiction.

 

[Naomasa298]

Some people delight in scandal and drama. If nothing's going on, they invent it and make other people miserable for the sake of their adreniline rush. Everyone probably would be better off if the scandal mongers took up writing fiction.

I thought that was what the National Enquirer was.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I thought that was what the National Enquirer was.

Is the National Enquirer still around?

 

[Naomasa298]

Is the National Enquirer still around?

Apparently so. We have our own equivalents here in the UK, even though a lot of them have become defunct in the last couple of decades, due to various scandals of their own. One of them had to apologise for bugging Prince Harry and Hugh Grant, from memory.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

One of them had to apologise for bugging Prince Harry and Hugh Grant

Really? The British civility of apologizing for incivility delights me.

 

[FFBurwick]

I write creatively though the writing might tend to be plain and straightforward. Some of what I know about myself would come through the characters in my writing, but that may be minor in comparison to all I show about them, as their own individuals. Any readers I have do not really know me as a person, and I might be anyone else as they might conceive me, if they were thinking of me. I am hopeful that they are thinking of the story I was writing a lot more, I was only writing it and not saying anything about myself.

 

[Pik]

I would say I feel somewhat restrained, reminds me of (self) censorship. I feel more liberated when writing in places no one knows me.

 

[Pik]

And I remember writing one story/play where the character realized that the events wouldn't have happened if he just wrote the story out of himself. It's something I heard in conversation, that what is said out loud loses power over the speaker's actions.