The Struggle of Creativity and Audience

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In one of my threads in The Haven, I wrote my relationship with writing. If I didn't write, I would die as simple as that. Its something I need to do, I always have ideas in my head, I always have an idea and I always need to write. If I don't write, if I don't let out this creativity that is inside of me, I will explode. The less I get to be creative, the less I get to create and write the more frustrated I get.

In my whole entire life I have never had writer's block. Even now, I am not blocked. I literally have no filter for my creativity.

What I'm struggling with is my own individual creativity not being accepted by people. I am currently working on projects in a RP site. Many of the GMs don't like my characters. I know the reason too. I tend to try not write with the same familiarity they are use to. Many of my characters are downright denied or I have struggle to fight with the GMs [Gamemasters] that my character is going to be an acceptable part of the RP.

Not only that, but my own writing kind of gets mix messages because of its well rather off beatedness.

I don't know how to write for an audience to be truthful. I have always written for people like me, who grew up reading books and now crave new worlds. Crave new places and new knowledge. To have fresh ideas seasoned by inspiration of familiar ideas, but I have never liked or written something like a familiar idea seasoned by a fresh idea.

My mind has never thought so inside the box when it comes to creativity and writing. Many of my ideas come from many of my dreams.

I don't know any more. And it causes me great frustration having to fight with people that my creativity is a reasonable good thing. I can't stop writing. Writing is a part of my soul. But I wonder if I'm even going to be a popular writer. If I am at all going to be liked. When I receive such negative responses.

Write the way you want to and look for audience's in many places.

I could have stuck my Doctor Who fan fiction with other Doctor Who fan fiction stories but they were not full novels at that site and so I put it up in my blog. I don't really know if people read them though. The pages have been visited.

Pensieve's idea sounds like a great idea. The internet offers free blog hosting sites where you could present some of your stories. You mentioned that you write stories that appeal to people like you. If you got a blog and linked it to your post here, you could get some feedback and perhaps some constructive criticism, particularly from the Writing Forum. Only a tiny portion of the people that browse this site post, there are thousands of others that browse it and may be exposed to writings.

I'm not a writer, so I'm not sure of where else you might post them, but considering the enormity of the internet, there are probably hundreds of places that you could find with research. If you are interested in getting help with this, some of the people in the writing forum might have some ideas to help you.

As far as being popular or being liked as a writer, I wouldn't focus on that. If 95% of the people that see it on the internet hate it and 5% like it that could still mean that thousands of people may enjoy it. Many times it is the people that do things off the beaten path that accomplish the notable things, just for the fact that their work is different from the norm.

Really the most important part of the whole thing is that writing is something in your soul. From what you have written the game sites don't seem to be the venue you need to get your stories out there. As you indicated the games sites are for the masses, and they are looking for characters that fit the norm; not the type of characters that you may be driven to create in your stories. You are really lucky you have this talent. My music days are pretty much over because I have worn my hands and out; I really miss it.

I'm no psychologist but there are ways to address the suspicions, paranoia, and control issues. The good thing is you have identified you have these problems and are not in denial The next step is to find someone to help you with it if that is what you want. It may be the one thing that holds you back from getting your work out there.