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Originally Posted by kennyc
Good for you Kat!
I easily come up with titles, ideas, plot devices, situations, sometimes scenarios but have great difficulty translating that into a working story.
I'm not understanding the connection of your response to the quoted passage about King though???
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King says he writes, because he "can't not write". (He has to write because he must.)
This is the case with many people, at least, they say so themselves. They claim that they feel they MUST write, even though they have no story, people who feel they want to compose music but can't think up a tune, and so on.
With me, it's just the other way around. I'm always walking around with some story in my head, often even several scenes at once, so big that they'd only need a few connections here and there to form a large part of a novel.
Still, I can't write it.
Whenever I start, and then read back over it, it's never as good as it was when I first thought it up and think: "Who'd want to read that?" So, I either don't even write it, or if I do, I don't finish it, or I trash what I've done. I fear to think what would have happen if I ever DID write everything I thought up. To me, it often seems "simple fantasy stuff", but to others, it may be (might have been, would be, could be....) more.
Maybe I'm just lazy. What I'd really want? To hold my head above a hard drive (tilted to the left), give a few good slaps on my right ear, and have the story drop onto the drive complete, as I thought it up the day before.