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Why Do You Write?
silentminister:
It's the only thing that keeps me going. I can write, or sit around and wait for the next book in a series to come out. My best writing comes out when I'm mad at someone, usually my parents or my brother... I wrote something around 20 poems between august of last year and april of this year... But I also dwindle into actually writing stories. I'm about to start writing a fantasy story.. working on the plot. gtg...
Rock Me Asmodeus:
Hmm… how about an itemized list?
1. It’s fun!
2. I could give up dreams of being a writer easily enough. I just couldn’t give up on the actual WRITING.
3. Putting the escapist fantasies in my head into print is cheaper than renting or buying someone else’s.
4. I work until I drop and I live an hour’s drive from anywhere. I can’t think of anything else to do with my scant free time.
5. I could pour hours of lifetime into writing and not even notice the passage of time. The present job makes this something of an inconvenience, actually. I don’t care. See #1.
6. Figuring out how characters work actually helps me understand and cope with real people. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but real people are REALLY weird. Also, annoying. :D
7. I live almost entirely in my head. Writing gives me something tangible to show for it.
8. I’m probably never going to get back to college. But I can still be everything I ever wanted to be…for a few pages. :-\
Blaze:
For me, writing is like giving birth. The story is here inside me, and then it needs to come out. I could no more stop writing than I could have stopped from having my babies. If only publishers reacted to new authoirs like folks react to new babies.
blgarver:
--- Quote from: Blaze on April 20, 2007, 09:13:37 PM ---For me, writing is like giving birth. The story is here inside me, and then it needs to come out. I could no more stop writing than I could have stopped from having my babies. If only publishers reacted to new authoirs like folks react to new babies.
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That pretty much hits the nail on the head for me too, Blaze. Except for that part where I'm a dude and have never given birth...but the other stuff is the same.
Blaze:
BL, for you it is like passing a kidney stone. At least my husband says that that is as close as a guy comes to giving birth.
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