Advice for young writers

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[keyseeker1]

For a 'certified counselor', you have woeful listening skills.

The point here is not pain for pain's sake (which i think Katz, Anita W. would readily classify as masochism, even 20 years ago when her work was published).

The point is that you cannot expect to write/paint/create anything relatable to pain if you have never felt pain. If you wanted to end your life without any scars you'd have to stay in a nursery forever.

Stop being so afraid, join us out here in the real world. Its not that bad!

[keyseeker1]

Masochism is pain purely for the enjoyment of pain. The advice here is to get out there and experience as much as you can as fully as you can, good and bad. The reality is that some of what you experience in life will hurt you, and it sucks to wounded that way. But the idea is that after you recover (which you will!) you'll be a wiser person with a better perspective. It's ok if you disagree, but how can you write something interesting about the world if you spend your life hiding from it?

[ihath]

good advice

[MrShepperson]

Isn't the start to 'Ask The Dust' by John Fante basically a rant about how you cant get life experience sat in front of a typewriter and if your out experiencing you cant write..... So you basically are going to have to make stuff up on your first few works anyway and pass it off as youthful high spirits... :)

[COF344]

I'll check it out.

[B0mbB00m]

hi i just started a blog a few weeks back it is a scfi/fantasy shortstories. it is at theziffer.blogspot.com. it only takes a second of your time and it means alot to me.

[Blackants6]

Hh

[Lythya]

T_T Oh, Neil Gaiman.

[cutu4ever]

Maybe you're just the kind of person that needs to take years to finish, just like John Green.

[Reamonn D'Arcy]

as possible I cut myself off from my family and friends, living 'off the grid' for four and a half months in preperation yet I did not enjoy it one bit. In fact it was near torture for me. I'd apply the same technique were I to play the role of a person who's heart has been broken, but as long as I dont enjoy the feelings the experience spurs it is absolutely not masochistic. Do please review the dictionary definition of this word. You are wrong.

[Reamonn D'Arcy]

@redeemerslove: Seems to be an error where TY wont allow me to reply to your comment regarding Gaimans advice on going out and getting your heartbroken and using the experience as material for your writing so I'll write it here instead: Its hardly masochism. In order for it to be masochistic one would have to enjoy the pain of the heartache. For example, along with being a writer I'm also a method actor. For my latest role I played a recluse and in order to portray the character as accurately as

[Reamonn D'Arcy]

Rather helpful advice, thanks.