Turning MD into ART

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We're all creative but wasteful with our creativity.  Why not turn our daydreams into novels and other creative endeavors?

Join in!  We can all encourage each other!  We can turn our daydreaming into something "adaptive" for a change.

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Could Be A Best Selling Author By Now

by Dev Thorne

Jun 16, 2012

I have sosososo many story lines running in my head and the way I DD is very language oriented as well as visual and sensory. I could be a best selling author by now. If I wrote them all down.

In my head it all sounds perfect. Beautiful and could easily be written down and then turned into a famous novel. But as soon as I start to write it down it sounds stupid, poorly written, and I get this tremendous frustration. I get so angry that I can't write it down perfectly. I forget almost all of it when I try to write it down. Does this happen to anyone else?? 

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    Dev Thorne

    That's actually a brilliant idea. I talk to myself too while I'm pacing. I am definitely going to try that. I need to get a hand hold recorder though. But I'll let you know it goes. (: Thanks



    Alex said:

    how about, umm, talking your day dreams out loud and recording them, recording your conversations to yourself... and then going back and writing it down. 

    It's kinda weird - i've tried this - but i hate the sound of my voice, but I know a lot of writers use this method to keep notes and keep track of ideas... 

    With my DD I talk to myself, a lot,  so if i'm going to be talking to myself anyway... i might as well record myself and see what could be useful in a story. 

    Jun 17, 2012

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      Floris

      Necro alert here ;-). Sounds normal to me, like this happens to EVERYBODY else. Perfectionism, being critical and analytical, blocks you here. First just write even if you do feel it's bad writing and don't think too much, just feel. You can use your brain to refine and improve later. To get into a flow it can help to focus on something emotional that really touches or bothers you and found it's way into one of your fantasy chapters.

      Seems that in your mind there is a very critical censor, maybe it's really the voice of mum/dad/teachers or whoever told you you weren't good enough...as was stated here it's OK to make mistakes, write those messy idiotic stories, practice. Being forgetful about good ideas...well I personally feel if an idea is really good I'll feel it's potential and it will stick with me, but when it comes to writing there are of course these random lines that are good and can become eventually useful.

      Jan 28, 2015

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        Kaitlyn Quach

        ME TOO!!! It's like I have too much information and the idea of getting it all down is too overwhelming.

        Sep 10, 2017