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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 23:27:47 GMT -5
That Asimov quote is cute, but I really want to probe your brains here. You wouldn't literally die if you didn't write, so why do you do it?
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Post by cyanea on Jun 9, 2011 1:08:29 GMT -5
Because I like science-fictiony, geeky, nerdy things that answer questions in a fictional manner like "Why are we here?" or that posit a new explanation for a historical mystery that will get laughed out of academia but fit in right at home in fiction ("Was Stonehenge really an alien landing pad?") or explain why I am the way I am ("Why am I vehemently ex-Christian?") or just feature really cool shit like tanks or impossible swords made of light or the idea that Richard III investigated murders rather than being the cause of them and in all my years of reading I have yet to find a book that does it in exactly in the way that I want so I said "Fuck it" and am doing it myself.
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 9, 2011 1:17:42 GMT -5
I write because I want to be heard. I want to let people peek down the rabbit hole, and I want to change the world.
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jun 9, 2011 1:18:58 GMT -5
That Asimov quote is cute, but I really want to probe your brains here. You wouldn't literally die if you didn't write, so why do you do it? No, I would. I'm seriously depressed and suicidal. Writing keeps me from killing myself. |
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Post by Olive on Jun 9, 2011 8:15:26 GMT -5
That Asimov quote is cute, but I really want to probe your brains here. You wouldn't literally die if you didn't write, so why do you do it? No, I would. I'm seriously depressed and suicidal. Writing keeps me from killing myself. Similar, except I've never hit the suicidal point. Thinking about that takes more energy than I have when I'm depressed. But it's still a sort of mental death. If I stop writing and slip into depression, I stop actually "living." I go though the motions, but I become so distant and apathetic that I don't even hate things any more. Breathing is necessary for physical life, writing is necessary for my conscious being. Does that make sense? |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 9, 2011 17:56:26 GMT -5
Ah. That does make sense. Which came first though? Did you start writing before you were depressed, or were you depressed and discovered writing makes it easier?
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Post by sandiek on Jun 9, 2011 19:06:46 GMT -5
I write mostly to get the muse to shut up. Everything stays in my head, seemingly taking precedence over everything until I write it down somewhere. Sadly, most of what I come up with is just snippets and scenes from this or that. Nothing to ever tie them together.
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Post by Olive on Jun 9, 2011 19:32:19 GMT -5
Ah. That does make sense. Which came first though? Did you start writing before you were depressed, or were you depressed and discovered writing makes it easier? I've always written, and the depression didn't really hit until high school. So... former? |
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alyoshka
Young Armadillo
Vous etes un chanteur des pommes.
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 9, 2011 19:34:58 GMT -5
k. I write because it's fun, but most of the time, I simply write because it keeps me from going insane.
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jun 9, 2011 19:55:50 GMT -5
Ah. That does make sense. Which came first though? Did you start writing before you were depressed, or were you depressed and discovered writing makes it easier? I've been depressed for 18 years, and I've been writing for longer. I think writing has always been the truest part of me, and tapping into that truest part of me helps me combat the depression that tells me lies. |
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Post by WhatIf on Jun 24, 2011 13:58:31 GMT -5
I write because I need to. Sometimes it's the only way to shut my brain up and let me sleep. Plus, I love writing things out. It helps me think.
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Katherine
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From the moment you begin breathing you start dying too.
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Post by Katherine on Jun 26, 2011 21:43:17 GMT -5
Because nobody else writes the books I want to read, so I have to write them myself. /ignoring the conversation above this comment I remember when I was a little kid, complaining how no one wrote the books I wanted to read, and so she told me to write them myself. And now I do, hah. I write because it makes me happy, I just love everything about it. |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jul 6, 2011 0:34:40 GMT -5
I write to shut up the voices and images in my head. /not crazy
I get this twitchy feeling when I'm struck by inspiration and I literally have to write it down on the nearest surface with the first writing utensil I can get my hands on. If I don't, it nags at me and I get frustrated if I forget it later. My wandering receipts, old homework, innumerable sheets of loose leaf paper, and many others are a few of what I'll use to scribble bits and pieces of my creative writing. Creative writing is like an itch to me. It won't go away until I scratch it and feel mildly relieved after it goes away.
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Post by hitzelc on Jul 14, 2011 23:53:02 GMT -5
I write because I am indecisive. I cannot be everything. I cannot hold every occupation, every title, or live every life that can be lived.
However, when I write I can be a painter, or an architect, or a philosopher, or a psychologist. I can do all of it and I can do it simultaneously. I have absolute power. I can stroke my ego when I write, and I will gladly stroke it as vigorously as a curious little boy would.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jul 20, 2011 20:37:51 GMT -5
Because the only way to kill anything legally anymore is with a pen on the page.
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