I think the singing is a brilliant metaphor but it's not a question of a -type- of "singing" since it's being contrasted as a duality with the "usual mental drone" rather than the finished product of the writing. I think, basically, what's implied is that we -think- differently when we write, which I find to be wonderfully true.
I'm often paranoid about not being as funny in person as I can be in writing (I'm not, am I, ahahah) and I'm actually less funny in writing the more "real" I think I am; the less... sarcastic and silly or droll and ridiculous or whatever. But of course, why would you be droll or sarcastic within your own head? You wouldn't-- I think it's because you're speaking to an audience-- the way singing almost intrinsically implies an audience even if there is none-- that you become -more- than you are while speaking/thinking.
You would think that people would speak with an audience in mind, and there is some change of mental pattern there, of course, but I think most people speak without thinking, so in a way it's yet another form of thinking, actually-- a reactive, extraverted sort, if that makes sense. I think introverted people (like a number of writers) maybe just have a difficult time with the extraverted version of thinking (that being speaking)-- sort of the frenetic energy and immediacy of it, along with the stresses of actually interacting with a person (unlike the relative serenity of writing) can be a bit much.
Even so, I always am unpleasantly startled that people -aren't- the way they are in their writing. For some reason, I'm always looking for "the writer within" in the writers I either meet or read the mundane journals of, and it's so frustrating because damnit, even the most wonderful, fascinating writers are so -boring- when they're just being (writing about) themselves :/ It's like, they're not -singing-, yes. I myself often 'sing' in my more 'personal' writing, but then, I rarely write directly about myself even in my journal.
I think style ('voice') has a relationship with content (fanfic or original or whatever), but for me, the type of content is more to do with mood and amount of plot and genre and stuff than whatever specific characters I'm talking about (mine or whoever's). Since I make the characters -mine- even if I'm writing about someone else's. I do find I'm less dreamy/fantastical in fanfic and I explore more styles of writing since I feel less limited by my own preferences somehow. I allow myself to "let go" of my ego and of my own subconscious dreams and desires being as controlling-- suddenly, I just have more room to experiment while retaining some "anchor" by way of canon.
SO I find I've experimented with -loads- of very different 'voices' since I've started writing fanfic (humorous and angsty voices both). A number of writers (most, even) seem to have a more constant voice than I do, though, and experiment with pairing or theme more than voice (and some just write to their kinks all the time and that's why they choose to do fanfic in the first place, but I don't see them as serious writers and also they tend to suck, MUWAHAHAH SO THERE).
I myself never wind up writing what I intended to, but I rarely intend anything because of the separation between linear writers (i.e., ones who plan ahead) and nonlinear writers (i.e., ones who make things up as they go along and always surprise themselves). I'm definitely in the second category :> :> I imagine the linear, plot-focused ones surprise themselves too, but... uh... not as often. *coughs*
Anyway, a nonlinear writer is just as nonlinear in fanfic, I think, because... it's just how they (we) think :> :> Um. Not that I'm the authority or anything.
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I'm often paranoid about not being as funny in person as I can be in writing (I'm not, am I, ahahah) and I'm actually less funny in writing the more "real" I think I am; the less... sarcastic and silly or droll and ridiculous or whatever. But of course, why would you be droll or sarcastic within your own head? You wouldn't-- I think it's because you're speaking to an audience-- the way singing almost intrinsically implies an audience even if there is none-- that you become -more- than you are while speaking/thinking.
You would think that people would speak with an audience in mind, and there is some change of mental pattern there, of course, but I think most people speak without thinking, so in a way it's yet another form of thinking, actually-- a reactive, extraverted sort, if that makes sense. I think introverted people (like a number of writers) maybe just have a difficult time with the extraverted version of thinking (that being speaking)-- sort of the frenetic energy and immediacy of it, along with the stresses of actually interacting with a person (unlike the relative serenity of writing) can be a bit much.
Even so, I always am unpleasantly startled that people -aren't- the way they are in their writing. For some reason, I'm always looking for "the writer within" in the writers I either meet or read the mundane journals of, and it's so frustrating because damnit, even the most wonderful, fascinating writers are so -boring- when they're just being (writing about) themselves :/ It's like, they're not -singing-, yes. I myself often 'sing' in my more 'personal' writing, but then, I rarely write directly about myself even in my journal.
I think style ('voice') has a relationship with content (fanfic or original or whatever), but for me, the type of content is more to do with mood and amount of plot and genre and stuff than whatever specific characters I'm talking about (mine or whoever's). Since I make the characters -mine- even if I'm writing about someone else's. I do find I'm less dreamy/fantastical in fanfic and I explore more styles of writing since I feel less limited by my own preferences somehow. I allow myself to "let go" of my ego and of my own subconscious dreams and desires being as controlling-- suddenly, I just have more room to experiment while retaining some "anchor" by way of canon.
SO I find I've experimented with -loads- of very different 'voices' since I've started writing fanfic (humorous and angsty voices both). A number of writers (most, even) seem to have a more constant voice than I do, though, and experiment with pairing or theme more than voice (and some just write to their kinks all the time and that's why they choose to do fanfic in the first place, but I don't see them as serious writers and also they tend to suck, MUWAHAHAH SO THERE).
I myself never wind up writing what I intended to, but I rarely intend anything because of the separation between linear writers (i.e., ones who plan ahead) and nonlinear writers (i.e., ones who make things up as they go along and always surprise themselves). I'm definitely in the second category :> :> I imagine the linear, plot-focused ones surprise themselves too, but... uh... not as often. *coughs*
Anyway, a nonlinear writer is just as nonlinear in fanfic, I think, because... it's just how they (we) think :> :> Um.
Not that I'm the authority or anything.