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Why Do You Write?
skaoi:
because i became frustrated with trying to find something i wanted to read from other authors. i started picking up books to read and invariably put them down in disgust, snarling, 'i can write better than this.'
Velkyn_Faer:
--- Quote from: SaraCollins on February 17, 2007, 08:02:42 PM ---I write because things in my head go FTL and I have a symbiotic relationship with the keyboard. :D Plus my (creative) writing is good. (About my essays...well...)
--- End quote ---
Amen to the last part! My writing is the same. I could sit for hours turning out a sci-fi or fantasy story, but the second someone asks me to write an essay I find I have better things to do. This frustrates my teachers to no end.
Taylor
Claire:
I started writing as a way to escape from my mom's cancer for a bit. Then, I fell in love with my characters. now, I can't get to sleep without writing a little bit each night.
That, and if I didn't write, I'd go insane from the attacks from the Plot Bunnies.
CynDe:
I think Alexander Pope wrote:
Why do I write?
What sin unknown
Dip't me in ink
My parents or my own?
I write because I need to. I have a very practical job that is all-too steeped in reality. I use a lot of creativity in my teaching, but sometimes stories and characters fall into my brain and demand to be expressed.
I completely understand what Terry Pratchett wrote about ideas floating through the multiverse and lodging in people's brains.
CrazyGerbilLady:
Because if I don't my characters won't leave me alone. They pop up in my dreams. I find myself creating plot lines for them in my head at weird moments. I find myself thinking how would they interact with this other character, and playing out scenes in my head. The only way to keep my brain mine is to devote some time periodically to writing them down. That seems to keep them content. ;D
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