good writers? - Comments

i've had a lot of people tell me i'm a great writer and i've certainly had my fair share of shite happen to me.
grew up without a dad, had the horrible moms new boyfriend, was a Katrina victim.

but I choose to look on the brightside and regret nothing. If that stuff didn't happen to me then I wouldn't be the person I am now and I quite like who I am now.

I think it is true, because a good writer who went through many painful or good experiences can make their stories as detail as possible. I think your English teacher is right.

Hmm, I haven't really experienced a lot of pain in my life, but I certainly consider myself a good writer. (Vain, much?)

Well... I have had some bad experiences, but I think the way I deal with problems allows me not to feel pain... or I am indifferent to it?
I enjoy writing funny things.... xD

a good writer can write in whichever style [sad, happy, angry, etc...] he/she wants without having to experience it, because they can envision it.
if you have the talent, it doesn't matter what your life was like

Well, Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Mary Shelley are some of my favourite writers, and none of them have lived "fairy tale" lives by any means. They've either experienced the death of close ones (especially Shelley) or overall seclusion/depression.

And when I write, I like showing my emotions, and relate my personal experiences to it.

Sounds just about right.
A person needs to feel to know what its like. People who feel emotion and are in key with those emotions would probably be better than someone who's not.
I don't think it's quite painful experiences. I like to believe a writer just must be in touch with their human emotions. If a writer wasn't, the characters wouldn't be believable. You've got to see stuff, got to feel stuff in order to understand emotion and life... and I guess, be a better writer.
But just because people've been through sh!t doesn't mean they're a good writer.

I suppose.
You have to be seriously in touch with your dark, sadistic side if you're writing something like... Saw perhaps. But if you're writing Winnie the Pooh type of stuff, you must be in touch with the lighter side. It's better to be in the middle so you don't lose yourself completely in your work.

yes or else I would not exist and yes i'm egotistic! HI MIBBANS TERR IS BACK!
*falls of chair randomly laughing*

heh sorry for the like essay comment. just voicing my opinion :P.

Well yeah, but if you DO have a lot of darkness and pain in your life you can write really good sad stuff you know? but then again you could write really happily too you know? if you've only ever had a happy life then you can't really write sadness all that well if you've never excperienced it because even if you life is sh*t you can write like unicorn happy or something, and you can also write really dreadful stuff too. really this all comes from you emotions. you can excperiment with all your emotions by writing...in my experience it helps if you've had a bad life or is depressed but, you don't have to be. like i can be severly depressed and that helps my write really sad stuff or i can be extremly happy and write fluffiness and turn it immediatly into depression...but hey that's just me but i do think that good writers have a lot of emotions and go through them a lot.

it depends what kind of stuff you write
if its all darkness and pain
then obviously its something they've suffered
if its light and funny
then they have it good,
you know?

I suppose it would help, to have that element of experience in your writing.
But then, that can be true for all the other emotions too.

I guess it is true in a lot of cases, but you don't have to write sad stuff to be a good writer.
You can be a great writer and write happy stuff.

I agree.

Yeah well we talked about something like this in psychology, people with melancholic temperament tend to be creative and sad, and most writers had a melancholico-phlegmatic temperament so it's logic that most of them were depressed.

yeah, sounds about right
they can relate to the characters more if they've had somethign bad happen, so it makes it seem more real
like how some detectives and shizz write detective stories, they're good becuase they've been there

I think that's true. Like for example i write really good sad and dramatic chapters and stuff because I've been through a lot, but then again i can be really fluffy too. so yeah it all depends on your emotion most of the time.

it's true for me

Yeah, seems right, but it 's really how you use the pain

Sounds correct to me.
Seems like they just pour out everything into their writing.
Someone I know...they have an amazing writing ability..and it's fair to say she's had some pain in her life.