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07-30-2007, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southwest Florida - Lightning Capitol of the United States
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5 Reasons to keep writing!
Seems writers get discouraged quite a bit, me quite a bit lately. I was challenged to write at least five reasons to keep writing my memoirs. I thought maybe you'd like a little inspiration and might even want to add a few of your own personal inspirations!
- My writing will improve as I dedicate myself to becoming a Writer.
- My writing will let me share my art, ideas, and vision with others.
- I have the ability to transform others with my writing.
- The research I do during my writing projects will make me a more articulate and knowledgable person.
- Writing helps me to organize and discipline my personal life.
You can find the comlpete list I wrote on my blog:
a BLINDING heart
Be Inspired! WRITE! |
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07-30-2007, 04:32 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South-east UK
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1 Writers get laid a lot more than ordinary mortals.
2 Writing will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.
3 Being a writer will make everyone else look up to you.
4 The government issue fast cars and lear jets to writers because they are the voice of their generation and therefore to be revered.
5 Writing will make you a better liar.
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07-30-2007, 04:43 PM
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Location: Southwest Florida - Lightning Capitol of the United States
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Mike C., That's just too funny! Yes, please, can I be a Writer too?
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07-30-2007, 05:52 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Mexico
Gender: Female
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike C
Writing will make you a better liar.
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Couldn't agree with it more.
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~Trust everyone, don't trust anyone~
*I love people but, I hate people*
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07-30-2007, 05:57 PM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 654
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Reasons to be a writer:
1. You like it.
2. You're good at it.
I always hated those interviews where the authors prattles on about why he writes and how they have some divine calling/do it for the dead/want to spread a message of peace/etc.
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"A terrible energy and strength began to grow in him. It grabbed his emotions and forged them into a solid bar of anger with one word stamped on it: revenge." - Eragon by Christopher Paolini, an international bestseller
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07-31-2007, 03:17 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Fernando Poo
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1. Because there is one person out there who really needs to hear what you have to say.
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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.
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07-31-2007, 03:53 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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1. Seeing one's thoughts hosted on someone's paid webspace does wonders for one's ego.
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07-31-2007, 04:02 AM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Continent of Mu
Gender: Male
Posts: 665
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1. You can satirize society.
2. You can do parodies of people.
3. You can red-shirt your enemies to oblivion.
4. You can disembowel a preconceived notion.
5. You can have your slice of cake and eat it too.
Milo
It's a you-can-we-can-tu-can-too. No, I don't know.
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"The truth is in the song 'No one lives forever.'" ~ Balalaika
I am not of your faith, but if a god cannot recognize and reward such love and loyalty, how can he be a god?
If there are no dogs in heaven, let me rather go to wherever they are. |
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07-31-2007, 05:17 AM
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Wordsmith
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ClancyBoy
1. Because there is one person out there who really needs to hear what you have to say.
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Because writers are egotistical enough to believe that. |
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07-31-2007, 07:04 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Gender: Female
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'Cause it makes me happy...[/spooky whisper]
Seriously. That's the only reason.
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07-31-2007, 07:22 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike C
Because writers are egotistical enough to believe that.
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No, I know who my one person is.
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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.
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07-31-2007, 08:13 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Mar 2007
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1. You can say what you want and blame it on someone who doesn't even exist.
2. You can look at your book on a store shelf and get a really big head about it.
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"It's always fun until someone gets hurt, and then it's just hilarious"
Ricochet - Faith No More
"Walk softly, and carry a big gun."
Force Commnander - Dawn of War
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07-31-2007, 08:27 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Some highway somewhere.
Gender: Male
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1. Things are much easier said in writing.
2. Writing gives me an excuse to disappear from normal life for hours at a time
with minimal repercussions.
3. I see the world differently while I'm writing.
4. My writing could influence other writers.
5. What would I be doing if I didn't write?
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07-31-2007, 10:13 AM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: South Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,045
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Because if I stop, I might die.
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07-31-2007, 11:20 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
Location: On islands
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,988
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1. Food costs money
2. Rent costs money
3. Woman cost money
4. Writers make terrible money.
5. Wait a minute, what was the question again?
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