Anthony Scott Glenn answered Victoria Limbert's question, 'The Passage of Time' with this, 'Sometimes it is the journey that is the most important part'. (I've taken it out of context)
Is the Journey the most important part of your writing endeavours or is the Arriving? The Arriving will be different things to different people. It might be getting published for some. It might be the satisfaction of hearing people make positive comments about your work. For others still it might the act of creation that is the important part. I would like to know what you find the most important part of writing.
Hi Victoria
Thank you for your amazing answer. I admire your honesty. Truly. Life isn't always easy or straight forward is it.
I like that you've created a world and that you're not wallowing in it on your own. You're taking readers with you into the very thing you've created, and you're sharing something that's clearly very important to you, and in the process you're giving people a lot of pleasure.
I also admire you for believing in yourself and for doing something really positive with this bad childhood experience.
Big hugs!!!
For me? I find the most important part about my writing is disappearing in to a world to escape the one I live in.
I am 26 and I feel, as I am sure others do, that I have gone through way too much hearbreak and pain. I was bullied badly as a child in school, I discovered i can not have children a few years ago (looking in to foster/adoption now) and many other things that real life throws. Though I have dealt with every single one of these blows, I hope, with my chin held high, the story world opens up options of escape.
For hours I can create problems for my characters to overcome, I can control what hardships they go through, how they deal with those hardships, and whether they come through them tainted or stronger. I also think it is why I lean to writing Fantasy. I create a world I control fully and lose myself within it. Then all my 'real problems' seem so much easier to deal with.
So in conclusion I gain satisfaction in both the journey and the arriving, as I think a story needs both to be complete