Do You Ever Feel Like?
Honestly, it's not my fault...
Do you ever
feel like
just a conduit
a channel
when writing?
I sit down
concoct a plot
then a wickedness
takes over
My characters
have no chance
of escape
There fate's already sealed
I used to worry
about my characters
Now I know better
to worry and fret
The more I worry and fret
The more "he"
makes them suffer
makes me regret
To save my characters
I need to hide them
But he will find them
cut them, end them
Make them his pawn
in his awful game
Make them his piece
something to mourn
*
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Author's Notes: It's never my fault. Honestly. Never. Proof above.
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Comments (13)
Haha! I was just chatting with Donna about this. If I write fiction (rare, but still) my characters take over and I'm just like, "do your thing, I'll just be over here slamming on the keyboard for you." lol!
Hahah funny! Must have already liked this one.
Hi Paul ~ Who me write? ~ I blame my 'Alter Ego' Jay
Love the anecdote about pawns.
A little bit of auto-writing going on? Stories & characters do have a tendency to take on a life of their own.
I have no connection whatsoever with my characters and I kill them all off happily. I raise them like pigs for slaughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes! Sometimes I start writing something with an idea in mind, and then my story will take off in a different direction. Like all it needed was for me to breathe life into it, then suddenly it becomes sentient and I'm just along for the ride😅
Scary!! I always say, I write right off the top of my head. I don't watch scary movies or read scary usually. I can't imagine writing scary. Sometimes I get into reading it by accident as it's someone I am following. I like their poetry. ❤️😉
Its complex isnt it. I can de-romanticise it and feel like I feel like a conduit because actually I am taking the characterisations and features of 1000 people I have read or met and creating another one from all of that. Or I can romanticise it and feel like the stories are wanting to tell themselves and I am enabling that to happen - depends on my mood!
Yes, I love the feeling when I’m “channeling” as you do deftly put it! All of my best work has felt that way.
There are stories I have written that way. My mind is someone’s’ puppet .
This is so relatable and well done. My brother also writes and we often say to each other “my characters’ told me this about themselves” or “they’ve run off and done this” . Nonwriters don’t understand that we have minimal control over this. Our characters pick up the plot and run away with it! I swear I didn’t mean for my character to have a dark tragic backstory, they just told me about it and who was I to tell them they were wrong?😂 This needs to be addressed more! Thank you Paul.
Yes, I have felt like that