aesmael

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On being open about...

Writing?

Again, something I have written about previously. How publicly to talk about my writing in progress? Looking back at my previous words on the subject it seems I had decided, as my future is unlikely to having any sort of fandom following my writing, there is nothing to be lost by being public about my process and the steps taken to complete each tale or part thereof.

There is another tension to take account of. I desire to share what I am excited about and working on, yes, and find such difficult to remain silent about. However I also enjoy to surprise people.

Last time, and I think most times I write about this I decide to be very open about process and progress. But usually at the time I am in the middle of trying to actually write something, so what gets produced is mainly progress notes and frustration venting, excerpts. Not so much the other stuff. Then months pass and I forget or am not making anything in the meanwhile.

I had the thought, accompanying the idea of writing more publicly, that people might be interested in seeing how writing actually happens. A few problems with that: 1) a lot of the people who I don't know don't read what I write are creative people themselves, so likely have their own experiences anyway, 2) since as I said I don't have any sort of following and am unlikely ever to develop one, people are not likely to be interested in how I specifically go about writing things. On the plus side, that means I don't have to worry about spoilering someone who wanted to find out what happened next by reading along.

I suppose the main reason to do so would be "Because I feel like it". Why else? And I don't think I could bring myself to do so for every story in progress, meaning if someone does care about being unspoilered there would potentially be opportunities.

Oh, this seems a bit of a pointless post. It could have been distilled to "For as long as I remember to and feel like it, I am intending to be more public about my writing in progress than most writers seem to be".