A poll about YOU!!

[rivers_bend]

I have somehow ended up having a conversation about these topics with four different people in the last two days, so I decided it's time for a poll. Plus, POLL! What's not to love? Polls are FUN! I made it so no one can see who says what, so you can answer honestly, with no embarrassment, because I promise not to judge you, no matter what.

I know I used the dreaded radio buttons for some of the questions, but you can just answer with how you most often feel. (and if you're both and artist and a writer, or whatever, and the answers would be totally different, you can pick one medium if you want) It doesn't have to be for every time; I know there will always be outliers, and there is always space in the comments box if you want to explain. I have comments set to screened, but will reply (and thus unscreen) unless you say "keep screened" in your subject line or the comment itself.




[Poll #1527751]

Comments

[kelly-girl.livejournal.com]

What I've wondered for awhile is if other writer's get kind of a 'writer's high?' once they finish a fic and then a slightly less kind of 'high' when they post?

It's like you're nervous but excited and then you get kind of a floaty feeling when you know you're done with a fic. Even before it's off to beta, you know you're done with the majority of it.


Or maybe that's just me?

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but when I am doing what I call "ice skating" writing, ie, when it is totally flowing along, I do get this feeling I could definitely describe as a "high". When I "finish" a fic I tend to get agitated because I'm not sure if it's really finished, or, more often, because I tend to get a lot of posting anxiety, like am I don't it right? (eg. right time of day, right places to cross post, right day of the week...) I do tend to get a second high when a fic hits whatever my "target" number of comments was. And that feeling is like how I feel when a plane that I am on hits the tarmac and starts taxiing safely. Which is like a relief without having had conscious worry.

I don't actually like that I have this target number of comments in my mind. But I cannot seem to stop myself from doing it.