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 Post subject: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:17 am 
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Well... somewhat of a random question... :-p

Just some moments ago (while I was eating and thinking about NaNoWriMo), a strange question popped in my mind, why do I write?

Well, and I though it would be cool to know why does others write?
Do you write for fun or is it your hobby... or perhaps a way to take out pent-up feelings?
Or maybe something else?

Please share your thoughts...

And before I forget, I write for the thrill of it... :-p, nothing but pure thrill...
That's one of the reasons why I don't plan... planning anything out just takes the thrill out... if you get what I mean...

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:30 am 
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I'm writing, because I detected this talent in 7th grade... and it's always fun to create more and more characters, stories or whatever...

The second reason for me to write: I never find the stories I want to read... so I thought, I have to write them myself. Think, this works out quite well ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:45 am 
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When I do write, I do it for the same reason I draw. I want to give physical form to my thoughts and stories so that I can share them with others because it makes me happy to create. What's the point in keeping them to myself in my head?

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:53 am 
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Because it's fun! *shot*
Because it lets me cement my ideas, regardless of whether I want to share them.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:11 am 
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Because I want to. 'nuff said. XD


I love to read but I wasn't really in to writing when I was in my Junior Year, but then the school librarian put up a single quote that really inspired me.

"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

And I have been writing ever since. XD

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:16 am 
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I'm an artist, but I think using words is another way of expressing emotions and how I see the world. Also, it's to make stories that I want to read.


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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:03 am 
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Because not to write was never an opinion.
Or rather... it just happens. =o
So many things happen, so many stories build themselves - with time, you just automatically write them down so that you won't forget them.
Ironically, I don't write stories that I'd like to read.
It's just that things never turn out the way I expected them to, just like my oh-so-predictable-shojo-manga-school-kawaii-whatever-insert-other-nonsense-here otome turned out into the game it is now - full of symbolic stuff and other things that the player normally isn't interested in.
I just wanted to make a normal otome in school that's just cute and fluffy and stuff. D,:
Ands the same thing happens with all my other projects and my shortstories. ^^"

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:11 am 
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Because if I don't, the idea will claw me from inside, ripping my brain apart until--

Oh wait.

Because if I don't, I will be uneasy! Plus, writing is fun! It's kind of a hobby.

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:11 am 
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I've loved writing since I was in elementary school. I like to build worlds and express the stories that result from my overactive imagination. I enjoy my stories enough on my own, but I think being able to share them brings life to them, you know? Not writing was never an option for me.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:53 am 
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Because if Smeyer can be successful at it, clearly anyone can.

Because A) I think it's fun, and B) I also do it when I get bored so that I can at least be productive. Oh, and C) I'm someone who's fond of satire and deconstructions, and there are sooo many things I'm bitchy highly opinionated about.

Most of them are for the good of mankind, I swear!

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:46 pm 
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I write because I am bored.

Actually, as weird as it sounds, I write according to my mood. Characters correlating with my mood pop up in my head, and I feel an almost compulsive need to write about them. And the story just writes itself. Yea.

Like, right now I'm writing two different novels, and one visual novel.
-One novel I write only when I'm in a dark sardonic mood. :twisted:
-One novel I write when I'm in a adventuress bold mood. 8)
-And this Visual Novel... Well... Long story short- only when I'm feeling insane, whimsical, obscure, drunk, sick in the head, ect. :P :mrgreen:

Oh and the music I'm listening to helps set the 'tone' of my writing. I never write without background music. Yep. Anyways.... Back to my VN!


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I write because I can I guess?

I've been the type of person who loves to tell stories to people. This includes books, manga, or fanfiction I've read recently and even just ideas for fanfiction or original stories that I've had. I can talk about pretty much anything and I love trying to make my interests sound interesting to other people.

This makes me well suited to storytelling, but I feel like if I really want to be a storyteller I should be a story writer as well. I have a large imagination and I write maybe 2% of the ideas in my head, but I feel like if I can write anything at all then I'm that much closer to being able to tell stories to more people.

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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:58 pm 
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because I love using struck out text for comic relief while expressing my inner thoughts so people won't get "mad" at me

Haha, poking fun aside....

I honestly hate writing. I write way too much and it end up sounding like an essay (I wonder why, it couldn't have been all the advanced english classes I took in high school...).

But writing in general is a necessary skill for life... i meen, hoo wud t8k sum1 hoo t@ks lik dis srsly? You need to be able to write properly for most well paying jobs, and it's just a lot easier to communicate...


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 Post subject: Re: Why do you write?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:16 pm 
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Because I have way too many ideas for my own good and if I don't record them on paper or the computer, I end up forcing myself to memorize them and in the end my brain will explode. Seriously though, everything but that last part is true (and that is still yet to be tested). Also because it makes me forget everything else? I get so absorbed with my characters that I end up feeling what they feel and essentially worry about their problems rather than mine. Is this an escape? Perhaps, on some level. But is it nothing more than that? No. Through writing, I get to experience new emotions, explore my view of human psychology, and as a result find solutions to my own problems.


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I write to pour my thoughts into paper. :D (helps me when i am stressed)

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