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| Duchess Dizufish | Feb 20 2009, 11:30 AM Post #11 |
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The Duchess of Administration
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Why do I write? I. . . don't really know. I suppose what I mean to say is that I don't know what I can say about why I write that hasn't already been said. I started when I was really young. . . well, I started reading when I was really young, and I started writing stories. . . but the reason I write stories is different than the reason I write poetry. I used to write stories because when I read I used to admire the realities created by the authors, marvel at how they pulled me in and made me feel things with just their words, and I wanted to do that. I had a great imagination as a kid. I guess I started writing poetry as a preteen. I used to go out and sit in the tree with my notebook and write. A lot of my poetry then stemmed from the usual preteen angst, I wrote a few darker ones. . . I was fascinated with dark things. I used to pretend I had another personality, someone that wasn't so small and cute, someone that could be intimidating and powerful . . . None of my writing is particularly powerful. None of it stems from horrible problems I've had, bad situations, terrible troubles. . . mainly, I write to observe. I write to slow down and think about things, to sort things out. I write because I see beauty and want to record it, but I can't paint, so I create with words what I can't with pigments. I want to capture moments, like the one I wrote about mine and Christopher's spot, or the one about the birds and nature versus industrialization. . . My poetry is a snapshot for me, a place to record memories. . . and a place to slowly reveal myself, to myself. That's all, I suppose. Nothing terribly complicated. :] |
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| Masquerading Doll | Feb 21 2009, 07:05 PM Post #12 |
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I dunno. For me, writing is like...taking myself through my life at a third person point of view. I've always loved reading. From the first book I ever read, I've been in love with it. Writing, never occured to me. I never though, nor do I now, think that I have enough in me to draw someone into my web. I'm not smart enough, my vocab isn't big enough, or anything. But, what got me writing, was a tramatic experience. Iuno, there weren't enough tears, nothing would express how I felt. So, I finally tried writing it out. It was...frustrating, because I was young, didn't have the words. But, as I got older and learned more, I got the hang of my style. It's changed over the years, but the reason behind it hasn't. It's a release, a chance to stand back and look at things, a chance to realign things and see correctly again. It just gets stuff out of my system. Sometimes, my head is so clouded with words, there's no thinking, I just have to write. Whether it makes sense or not, it has to come out or I feel like I'm going to explode. Right now, I'm totally blocked. I find that everything I go to write, is on the same wavelength as everything I've written before. I'm trying to branch out, feel out different topics and things of that such. It worked for a bit, but I'm also trying to find new words. My style is changing, and the words I usually use, aren't complicated enough. They don't pack enough power. I could say that writing is the only healthy addiction I have, lol. |
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| NeonXCupcake | Feb 21 2009, 08:28 PM Post #13 |
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Resident Pain In The Ass
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Writing is my coping mechanism. It's masking my inability to deal with reality. In a poem, or story, things can go the way I want them to be. And it's sort of my way of accepting the inevitable. I don't really know. |
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| m&m.Michael. | Feb 22 2009, 11:34 AM Post #14 |
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Why do I write? Well, I don't anymore. Trying to start up again. I use to write, because certain things were better left on ink, rather than on my heart. I wasn't trying to escape anything at the time, because it was obvious that those certains things are things I will never escape. |
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