Have you written less during the temporary shut down?

I'm still doing the odd shopping list much the same as usual.

interesting question marty ... does this mean that abc is part of the creative process for some people? is the making public of a piece and the possible feedback on it something that drives people to write? and if it is ... is that a bad thing?

I have written much much less, and i too wonder if its a part of it... i used to do so much reading, and i do think that reading is associated with writing.

well spooky, i think it does have an impact, the site encourages you to write and if you can't upload your stuff, you maybe lose the impetus, or your impetus is not as strong, or something i guess it's not a bad thing if what one writes is twaddle, maybe endless rewrites of a piece would improve the quality....

abc is part of some creative processes I think... I also reckon that because the site is down at the moment, people who are writing less are thinking more, and the result will be a massive explosion of creative writing when the site reappears. Looking forward to it.

*gulp*

Funnily enough I'm probably writing more, though I'm spending too much time on the discussions forum. There's also time to revisit those fragments and pieces which have tailed away into inconclusion and see whether or not they can be resurrected. [%sig%]

It's strange. I am writing much more than I ever did. Perhaps its the Birkbeck course I'm on, but I have written reams, mainly short stories and scenes from a play. Its good for me because it means that I was not just writing for the site and showing off and that there is something else that is driving me on. To tell the the truth I am very happy with the stuff that I am writing, I have a new confidence and sureness in what I am doing which does stem from the course. I am in no rush to show and tell as soon as possible like I used to, but am taking a far more measured and reflective approach. Strange but rewarding. Ralph

It hasn't affected my writing. I'd write on a desert island by dipping a thorn in my own blood and scratching sentences on bark. But, sadly, it has has affected my reading of other writers on abc, because I dont feel motivated to read random stories. When the site comes back up to strength I've resolved to discover one good story, on average, a day to rate and then write to the author about.

do publishers accept blood engraved bark, Bes?

Hrm... I think maybe Ive written less, simply because I aren't sat at the PC as much as I was when editing. Ive been kind of busy with uni and the rest of life. Im sure when I get the urge to show off again, I'll be writing copious amounts of poetry though.

Much less :(

More, because I have fewer distractions.

What you said struck a chord with me Liana, because I've written much, much less since I stopped being an editor. When I was reading stories and poems every day, a chance phrase would set my mind spinning off in other directions and I would be thinking about writing for long periods of the day. I would hope that the feedback did make people want to write more (or hone and polish what they have written) because that seems to me to be a big purpose of the site. Having an audience of your peers (and sometimes betters) is much more healthy than asking your friends, who are never going to be subjective, to read your stuff. Oddly, the closedown has led me back to the forums, which I dip in and out of from time to time. And that in turn has led me to start writing again.

maybe it's just because i've not been able to upload them that makes it seem like there are more than usual, but i've got at least 75 poems typed up on word (that's 29 pages of poems..in size 9 font). hmm *strokes non existant goatie* interesting, that.... however i wrote practically nothing over half term. i have been reading all of the threads in the discussion forums, just not replying *shy blush* *cough* anyway...i'll stop going on... [%sig%]

....oh good I can blame abctales ;) Yippee... thanks Martin...my guilt's just legged it .... maybe now I'll start writing

Less Much less I scored two lines into a notebook this afternoon (I've had this image in my head of two columns of smoke and two people smoking on a park bench) for weeks . . . But that is my sole creative endeavour for . . . a good while.

I still write. I write all sorts. I’d write on walls, I’d write on shorts… …If that’s all I had to write on. I’ve wrote my head off; It’s now gone. Seriously, I do write often, still – and more importantly (at least for me, as I’ve been inclined to sometimes submit ‘pieces’ of my ‘writing’ to ABCtales perhaps prematurely in the past), I’ve been re-writing things – things that I realised were tufts of twaddle as they were. Now I’ve turned them into just smidgeons of twaddle : )

Miles less.