Writing, reading, or art: choose ur starter.
Art is probably the most fun thing for me to do. It's more versatile. You can draw stuff when you're falling asleep or start some big operation in the middle of the day with paints and all that. Also when you're not creative you can just draw like a really good pineapple just of a picture and it's still rewarding. When realism isn't going well for you, you can just scribble and call it subversive, like, and that's maybe sorta rewarding. Not really. I've taken a drawing class, though, and let me tell you; all that fun can be sucked out quick as soon as it actually matters. The most frustrating thing is that I always have one wonky part, and, like, you don't even know which part it is or what is so wonky about it and every single thing you do to fix it turns my almost pretty lifelike sketch into an absolute cartoon. The only thing you can do is turn that drawing over and lament time lost. Nowadays, I mostly art for writing, to be honest. Instead of writing out character forms I like to go to my trusty very limiting and frustrating app and sketch them out - forcing me to spend a long time thinking about their character and hopefully getting a good picture out of it, making a few notes of the best ideas I think up on the side. I think that shows that although I can usually have fun drawing, it can't be the winner in this fight. I frequent Wattpad, not Watteasel anyway.
Reading is great if I find a great book. On its merits alone, it's quite a dull activity. You need a bunch of light and it hurts your eyes, and you got this dumb physical book that you gotta wrangle like a bronco just to be able to comfortably read it every single time you read a page. If I'm reading something because I have to, not because I want to, I absolutely want to die. I guess that's true of all of these, though. You get one of those much-desired good reads and all of it is worth it. Finish that thing in a sitting, absorb a brand new viewpoint in writing, see the world differently. Great books pummel me with ideas. I see the way they turn events into stories and for the next week I'll be like wow a crumpled up cup on the floor, that would make the best story - wait wait oh my leggins there's a birdfeeder over there! *dives for notes*
Writing, I think we can all agree, sucks. That's why I gotta give it the nod. I really don't know what to say here. It's something I dread doing before, am embarrassed of after, and struggle all the while. I can't even say that like a joke though, because I've never overcome it. I gotta write something for real. How can I even judge writing in this moment - do I even know what it is? I'm having second thoughts.
