My name's Sam, and I'm an addict

[Sam Wyer]

Hi

 

Since joining GA recently I've been somewhat overwhelmed by the community that exists here.  Not just by the quality of talent that there so clearly is, but also by the way that people are actually, you know, mostly very friendly.  I like it, and in many ways it feels like something I have been very much lacking in my writing world, which to date has actually been fairly lonely.  I've already been making use of you all, which is great, so now here I am again, asking another question.

 

It's not as if I'm going in to cold sweats if I don't get a chapter finished or anything, but I have come to realise that it's a very important aspect of my life, and I can get a little bit off balance if I don't get to write frequently.  There's just something about the process of creating and producing fiction that I don't quite get from anywhere else - which has it's own problems but that's probably for another day.

 

So, does anyone else feel that writing is addictive?

 

Sam

[FormerMember4]

For me, writing is addictive. I've been writing in a journal everyday since I was 14. I'm not complete without at least writing in that and meditation everyday. 

[Sam Wyer]

2 minutes ago, BlindAmbition said:

For me, writing is addictive. I've been writing in a journal everyday since I was 14. I'm not complete without at least writing in that and meditation everyday. 

 

As much as I can see the appeal, I've found that I'm just not disciplined enough to write a journal.  Maybe if I was I wouldn't write fiction though, so I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

[FormerMember4]

4 minutes ago, Sam Wyer said:

 

As much as I can see the appeal, I've found that I'm just not disciplined enough to write a journal.  Maybe if I was I wouldn't write fiction though, so I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I understand what you're saying. For me, writing has other important purposes. It has always been therapy. So I don't turn to self-harm. So if journal, poetry, writing note to friend. Just the process I couldn't live without.

[Brayon]

Yes. If I don't write something every day, I feel lost.

 

As jp, I use writing as a form of Therapy, and explained a bit more of this over in the club. It helps. I share only a fraction of what I write. LIke I have some Nifty Level Smut, that I have not shown to anybody, at all.

[Valkyrie]

Yes, it can be addicting.  I don't feel the need to write every day, though.  When I first started writing I went through a bit of a 'frenzied' period, where the words flowed easily and I wrote pretty prolifically.  Now that's not the case.  I have attention issues which make sitting down and concentrating on writing very difficult sometimes.  So when my attention is good, I go with it and write, and when it's not, then I don't sweat it and do what I can when I can.  Honestly, I think I find GA itself to be more addicting... lol 

[Sam Wyer]

9 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

Nifty Level Smut

 

Nifty was my first introduction to gay fiction, and yeah, there's a wide range of stuff out there  

[Sam Wyer]

10 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

Honestly, I think I find GA itself to be more addicting... lol 

 

Yes, I think I know what you mean.  Knowing that there are engaged readers, as well as other writers is quite exciting.

[Parker Owens]

5 hours ago, BHopper2 said:

Nifty Level Smut

Love that phrase. But I get what you mean. I've written some, too. 

[Sam Wyer]

17 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

Love that phrase. But I get what you mean. I've written some, too. 

 

Well if it's good enough for the newly minted Promising Author, it's good enough for me.   Maybe my darker side should be allowed to escape  

[Brayon]

5 hours ago, Sam Wyer said:

Nifty was my first introduction to gay fiction, and yeah, there's a wide range of stuff out there  

 

 

45 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

Love that phrase. But I get what you mean. I've written some, too. 

 

26 minutes ago, Sam Wyer said:

Well if it's good enough for the newly minted Promising Author, it's good enough for me.   Maybe my darker side should be allowed to escape  

 

 

I'll admit, I love my erotica as much as the next guy, and I read more stories on Nifty than I care to admit. I came to GA via Nifty, as I was following an Author to see if they finished a story, here, that they had posted there. (Sadly, they hadn't and that person is no longer active.) I've written some spank material, that I've thought of posting, not here but Nifty, but I'm self-conscious of what I write. I mean, I wonder if people like what I post here, and I just imagine if they would like the Porn I post... or would I even want to know if they like said porn!

 

I will say, I am surprised about some of the older GA stories, and how graphic in descriptions they can be. Like the year 2010 postings, several of those are Nifty Level.

[Sam Wyer]

3 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

 

 

 

I'll admit, I love my erotica as much as the next guy, and I read more stories on Nifty than I care to admit. I came to GA via Nifty, as I was following an Author to see if they finished a story, here, that they had posted there. (Sadly, they hadn't and that person is no longer active.) I've written some spank material, that I've thought of posting, not here but Nifty, but I'm self-conscious of what I write. I mean, I wonder if people like what I post here, and I just imagine if they would like the Porn I post... or would I even want to know if they like said porn!

 

I will say, I am surprised about some of the older GA stories, and how graphic in descriptions they can be. Like the year 2010 postings, several of those are Nifty Level.

 

So, I haven't checked this, but has GA evolved a lot from when it started?

[FormerMember4]

53 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

Love that phrase. But I get what you mean. I've written some, too. 

Oh Parker! With your Spice poetry....  I can only imagine. I'll bring the wine... you read me the Parker smut! 😉

[Brayon]

Just now, Sam Wyer said:

 

So, I haven't checked this, but has GA evolved a lot from when it started?

I'm relatively new here. But just from reading stories, posted over the years, I would have to say Yes.

[FormerMember4]

7 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

I'm relatively new here. But just from reading stories, posted over the years, I would have to say Yes.

I think it's the quality of author. There's nothing wrong with Nifty. However; I think a little restraint brings mystery. For me, can be more erotic than wham-bam. Not too many stories on Nifty with actual plot.

[mogwhy]

42 minutes ago, Sam Wyer said:

 

So, I haven't checked this, but has GA evolved a lot from when it started?

i've only been on GA for a little over a year. it was 6 months before i venture outside the stories area. i had so much time to read.i think the earliest story was from 2008. i'd never read a Nifty story until 3 months ago. lots PWOP there. the site i read before coming here, had even more than Nifty!  i think i have in my "manged content", stories i read, have read, and will read again (and again  ), a good 275+ and have read but not saved another 150-200. yes i have no life. i think the LEVEL of writing has only improved. the newer stories are, guess for lack of a better word, polished. less grammar, spelling and plot hole mistakes. 

[MacGreg]

Hi, I am Mac, and I am an addict of writing. Is this a 12-step program?

 

I would rather write novels than work my full-time job, but that's not reality, so I squeeze my writing in in between work and college courses. It can be extremely frustrating not having ample time to concentrate on a story. When I'm consistently distracted, I can't be creative. But I have so much going on in my life, personal and otherwise, that I can only do what I can do. Plus, admittedly, some of the distractions are of my own doing...

 

As for smut... I love to write smut. But I'd rather weave it into a story that has deeper context, where the smut portion is a special reward for the reader, not an expectation. Including sex scenes that match up with the context of a story is important for any writer, in any genre. Many postings on Nifty are written only to satiate a fantasy. They can be fun to read and fun to write, but as stories, they fall short of the mark. I feel that the stories, poems, blogs and other writings on GA have substance, and that's why I'm here.

Edited September 6, 2017 by MacGreg

[Former Member]

 

 

I write all the time, sometimes going over four chapters at one time. lol I get up in the middle of the night to write a paragraph, go back to bed. I wake up after a dream, jump back on the old keyboard and start tapping out my nonsense. I tried my hand at poetry, not that I'm close to being a poet but wanted to see what I could do. It was all nonsense that only made sense to me. But that was okay, because I'm not a poet..hell...I'm barely an author. I have a vivid, dark, and sometimes disturbing imagination that allows me to drift away from the norm. I write gay fiction, not because the characters are gay, but because I love putting characters in places where others think they don't belong. I love the downtrodden. I root for the common man. I love the not so pretty boys who stick together, because they're  considered misfits, even by their own. I love ruggedly handsome men who have everyday problems. Former soldiers who are now just working class stiffs trying to make ends meet. As you can see, my post is long as hell, because I can't stop writing. 

 

I love the works of a very talent author on here who has at the beginning of a story a very interesting tidbit. Hypergraphia:  is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy, which is the cause of the Geschwind syndrome, a mental disorder.

 

I won't go so far as to say I have this condition, but I do have a compulsion to write. There was a time when I spent 18 hours a day burning up the keyboard.I would go to sleep, get up, eat, and then continue to write. I go to sleep with plots, setting, and characters in my head. The sad truth is...I'm not a very good author, but I believe I'm a hell of a storyteller. lol I can't stop. Maybe it's OCD. Who knows.

[FormerMember4]

4 minutes ago, R J Drew said:

 

 

I write all the time, sometimes going over four chapters at one time. lol I get up in the middle of the night to write a paragraph, go back to bed. I wake up after a dream, jump back on the old keyboard and start tapping out my nonsense. I tried my hand at poetry, not that I'm close to being a poet but wanted to see what I could do. It was all nonsense that only made sense to me. But that was okay, because I'm not a poet..hell...I'm barely an author. I have a vivid, dark, and sometimes disturbing imagination that allows me to drift away from the norm. I write gay fiction, not because the characters are gay, but because I love putting characters in places where others think they don't belong. I love the downtrodden. I root for the common man. I love the not so pretty boys who stick together, because they're  considered misfits, even by their own. I love ruggedly handsome men who have everyday problems. Former soldiers who are now just working class stiffs trying to make ends meet. As you can see, my post is long as hell, because I can't stop writing. 

 

I love the works of a very talent author on here who has at the beginning of a story a very interesting tidbit. Hypergraphia:  is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy, which is the cause of the Geschwind syndrome, a mental disorder.

 

I won't go so far as to say I have this condition, but I do have a compulsion to write. There was a time when I spent 18 hours a day burning up the keyboard.I would go to sleep, get up, eat, and then continue to write. I go to sleep with plots, setting, and characters in my head. The sad truth is...I'm not a very good author, but I believe I'm a hell of a storyteller. lol I can't stop. Maybe it's OCD. Who knows.

I understand you in this. I disagree that you can't write poetry. It was a voice well heard.

[mogwhy]

8 minutes ago, R J Drew said:

 The sad truth is...I'm not a very good author, but I believe I'm a hell of a storyteller. lol I can't stop. Maybe it's OCD. Who knows.

 

sad truth is, you don't believe in yourself enough! you suffer from a condition that many authors suffer; icantwriteshititis. and i so name you an author/poet/storyteller. 

[Former Member]

1 minute ago, mogwhy said:

 

sad truth is, you don't believe in yourself enough! you suffer from a condition that many authors suffer; icantwriteshititis. and i so name you an author/poet/storyteller. 

Thanks moggy for the boost of confidence my patient, and kind editor. 

[Former Member]

12 minutes ago, BlindAmbition said:

I understand you in this. I disagree that you can't write poetry. It was a voice well heard.

I know I've already said thank you, but if you hadn't given me that nudge, I would have never posted. so thanks again jp. 

[FormerMember4]

2 minutes ago, R J Drew said:

I know I've already said thank you, but if you hadn't given me that nudge, I would have never posted. so thanks again jp. 

You're a sweet woman who shouldn't be silent. Your voice has value. ❤️

[Sam Wyer]

8 hours ago, MacGreg said:

Hi, I am Mac, and I am an addict of writing. Is this a 12-step program?

 

Sorry, no, as far as I can tell, there is no hope of recovery  

[mogwhy]

Just now, Sam Wyer said:

 

Sorry, no, as far as I can tell, there is no hope of recovery  

did you really want one?