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08-23-2007, 10:03 AM
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Ink Slinger
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Why do we write?
Why DO we write? I am quite serious about this. What is it that impels us to transform our thoughts into the written word?
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unfortunately, Oxikins, a grown up sense of humour is wasted in this kindergarten...
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08-23-2007, 10:15 AM
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Prolific Writer
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Location: In a black cave deep in the Black Forest, eating a black pudding and thinking black thoughts.
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Why is the sky blue? Why is grass green? Why do we have legs instead of wheels? What is, is, and I am a writer. I could be no other way.
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Buggrit, mellenium hand and shrimp. ~ Foul Ol' Ron
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08-23-2007, 10:24 AM
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Profound Writer
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The fear of insanity.
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08-23-2007, 10:27 AM
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Ink Slinger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackWolf
Why is the sky blue? Why is grass green? Why do we have legs instead of wheels? What is, is, and I am a writer. I could be no other way.
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Egad. My eyes are starting to scrinch up. You're younger than me and can keep going longer (or you live in a different time zone. Black Forest? Ha!) but I need my beauty sleep. I'm outta here. ttfn.
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unfortunately, Oxikins, a grown up sense of humour is wasted in this kindergarten...
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08-23-2007, 10:36 AM
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Prolific Writer
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It's three thirty-six here.
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Mr Speaker, I said the honourable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable member may place the punctuation where he pleases. ~ Richard Brinsley-Sheridan
Buggrit, mellenium hand and shrimp. ~ Foul Ol' Ron
http://www.writersbeat.com
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08-23-2007, 10:50 AM
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Scribe
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I write because I love Art in all it's forms. This is the next medium I have decided to work with and hope to succeed with.
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08-23-2007, 10:56 AM
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Wordsmith
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Originally Posted by The Backward OX
Why DO we write?
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Ego. We think we have something important to say, and that other people want to read it. |
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08-23-2007, 11:54 AM
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Ink Slinger
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It's a lot more organized and linear than keeping a story in your head.
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08-23-2007, 12:00 PM
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Welll......... lol... in a nutshell
 I write to get them out of my head... people, their lives their dreams, I put them down on paper with pen, their constant bickering drives me nuts. I'm not really insane, but their voices come alive at the most inopportune time, and I have to write it down.... it's why I write, and when I read what I write, its actually not so bad.... I dont share yet... to nervous about that.. but working towards it. |
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08-23-2007, 01:07 PM
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because it's either this, or schizophrenia.
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When he was with her, the music never stopped.
* * * * * joelle-writing
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08-23-2007, 01:14 PM
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because we can. and that's a serious answer.
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08-23-2007, 01:18 PM
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Profound Writer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joelle
because it's either this, or schizophrenia.
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ditto |
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08-23-2007, 01:48 PM
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Shy attention-seekers, wanting the world to look at them without actually looking at them.
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Power-hungry people without the forcefulness to take control of a nation, acting out their fantasies of control by running the lives of fictional characters instead of real people.
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People who feel they have something important to say.
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People who are too ugly to be film stars.
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08-23-2007, 01:57 PM
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I think I will go with answer B or answer D.  |
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08-23-2007, 02:07 PM
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I guess, like everything, it's individual. Sometimes I think that if I didn't write, didn't get the inside out, it would just build and build, until one day I'd be walking down the street and my eyes would bug out, my face would go red, and I'd just burst like a popcorn kernel. I wonder if words would roll down the street or if it would just be a gooey mess of expired biology.
The next logical question is why don't we write? In those moments when we could, when we know it's in us to do it, but we deny the moment. That's the one that's got me.
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