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Thanks so much John! I'm coast-hopping the next few days so I'll be sure to return the favor over at your blog, probably from some random airport. @durkinrobinson - I'm not nearly that self-seeking, but I appreciate those who are... your words have a way of moving people. For me, I just love weaving a great story and Maya Angelou sums it up best: “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” @Valmore - That quote is a little too heady for me (I'm a simple guy). I prefer the straightforward: "Myth is more potent than history." (Story Teller's Creed) But, I'm a fiction writer, so... |
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10-06-2010, 04:41 PM | #18 |
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I think that one reason that I write is to create myths that help me to relate to reality. And in doing so my secret hope is to communicate with the reader on a mythical level something that I'm too clumsy to articulate in person or in an essay.
Another (vain) reason that I write is to leave something that will linger in this world after I'm gone. |
10-07-2010, 02:05 AM | #19 |
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Why do I write? Because it's FUN! It's a blast creating living worlds and characters, and doing a weird sort of grown up make believe.
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10-12-2010, 01:44 PM | #20 |
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Why I write, is a question I often ask myself. So far, I haven't received a suitable answer.
Beneath a Buried House http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003SE7J6I |
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10-12-2010, 09:23 PM | #21 |
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I agree it is fun imagining what someone might do in situation x, and of course if you do it well enough you might even get paid for your bit of make believe not to mention the thrill of seeing your name in print on something that may catch someone's interest yrs after you are gone. In a way a story or book is like a shared dream between the author and reader. I have enjoyed many such experiences that others have written and would like to add to that supply myself.
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10-13-2010, 05:55 PM | #22 |
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The practical answer to why is to say that I at one time had a boring job with too much time on my hands and started writing to fill the time. The problem with that explanation though is that the stories actually just popped into my head on their own. I did not really try to make them happen, they just did. And then they kept coming, and are still coming.
It seems to be that it is not so much that I write as it is that I catch the story as it comes tumbling out of wherever it comes from. My muses are very fastidious and excessively talkative. I am just capturing the moment and putting in words. |
10-13-2010, 06:05 PM | #23 |
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I write because sometimes I have to, the idea just won't leave me alone until I write it down.
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10-13-2010, 09:37 PM | #24 |
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I think I write for the same reason I program (develop software):
I like to create. I like to imagine something and then make it real. Writing stories and designing software are two ways that I can do that. In the latter, I imagine a program or game and then build it. In the former, I imagine characters and worlds and magics and I get to make those real too. I like to create. I'm not sure how else to describe it. -David |
10-14-2010, 08:50 AM | #25 |
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writing takes me some place else. if i can imagine myself around there, smelling the flowers, then I know i did it!
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10-15-2010, 08:42 PM | #26 |
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10-16-2010, 04:54 PM | #27 |
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Why do you write?
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10-20-2010, 01:23 PM | #28 |
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I write because I can't find the stories I want to read.
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10-25-2010, 10:32 PM | #29 |
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It is the one way to go to the places I want to go to and meet the people I want to meet. But there is more than that. There's a satisfaction in exercising the discipline of crafting a story so that it actually works. I write software during the day, and there are some parallels. Software has to work right and, in a different way, so does a story.
But mostly I like reading my stories to my wife (can't read her the software, I tried :-)). |
10-26-2010, 11:35 AM | #30 |
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Wow, I had no idea there were so many replies here! I'm not getting email notices, for some reason.
I just read all of these and identify with some aspect of every one. What rings most true for me, however, are the comments about something that can't be denied... |
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