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Different Writing Moods


  • Myryca
    Aug 1 8:44 PM
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    Does anyone find that you write better in different moods? Not inspirational moods but, for instance, if you're writing an angry character or scene, it's heaps easier to write it (and write it really well) if you yourself are in an angry sort of mood?

    I'm not sure if this is true for me or not but I've noticed that in some of my older works, I seem to have written angry/irritable scenes much better back then (when I was going through a more angry/irritable period of my life) than I can now (in a much happier and light-hearted period ).

    Otherwise, what kind of mood are you in when you write the most (and the best)?

  • DearManhattan
    August 2
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    I'm at my writing peak if I'm happy or excited. Even if I'm writing an angry or depressing scene, I'm much better when in a good mood.

  • scriptor
    August 15
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    im the same as DearManhattan

  • Arthur-Jaz
    August 19
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    For the most part I have to be in a relatively happy mood when I work on writing that I want other people to read eventually. For freewrites it doesn't matter, but if I'm really angry or really depressed my writing usually reads horribly.

    I may get a few good lines here and there, but I wind up going back and doing heavy revisions.

  • Shikasgirl
    September 16
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    Well, yes. Sometimes, Im doing something, and Im perfectly happy, and then I start thinking about a character who is grumpy, or miserable, and I tend to get in that mood without even realizing it. I think the reason you write better when you're in that mood is you can both relate to the character of which you are writing about, and you can more easily get in their heads.

  • katicalocke
    September 16
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    I can't write when I'm really angry about something. If I pretend to be angry, to get into the character's head, that's different, but if something makes me mad, I can't think well enough to write.
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