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Why Do You Write?
The Dread Pharaoh Roberts:
Because if I don't, they won't let me play on the Dresden RPG boards... ;D
Hope:
That was how it started for me, the stories in school because BORED, and at night to go to sleep. Those ones get lost because, darn it, I go to sleep & forget!
ballplayer72:
I started writing to get something off my chest, and the work kinda hijacked me. Now its its own thing
Murphy's Stunt Double:
--- Quote from: Velkyn_Faer on February 03, 2007, 12:35:08 AM --- What makes you sit down at the keyboard or with that pen and paper and begin to form that world?
--- End quote ---
Wellll.... short form, the answer is....
because I can't *not* do it.
Long form... the reason I can't *not* do it is because I want to create a world that goes the way I want it to go. Where the people do the things I want them to do...
Used to be, that was a problem, because there was no conflict...
And then I matured, and realized that getting oneself freed from the conflict was what made the adventure interesting...
And now... it's a matter of, my real life has very little conflict and without it... I don't feel so alive...
does that make sense????
meg_evonne:
I write for my own pleasure and have for years. Recently I realized that I had reached the best I could be. If I wanted to improve my craft I would need to open up to others. To have them help, guide and critique my work. I needed to study the basics, take classes and further my skill. I am enjoying the journey.
Usually I get jump started by something that happens in the real world and I am forced to address it through my writing.
To Hope concerning dreams, You can train yourself to remember your dreams. Keep a pen & paper next to your bed. When you awake in the dark, just reach for it and start writing. Don't even turn on the light. In the morning you will find the scratches and they will take your mind back to the dream. Some people call them dreamlogs. A Lutheran pastor taught it as a core curriculum class in a South Dakota college (large Am. Indian student population) and through study he learned a great deal about dreams and visions.
With enough time (okay maybe years for most but for writers and artists it can be learned in an incredibly short time) you can actually lay down to sleep and tell yourself to pick up the dream from before. Your dreams will become 3D and filled with your senses.
You can't image what a dreamlog will do for your writing! enjoy your dreams and your writing!
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