So as we continue our countdown (five days! Sweet pumpkin pie, five days!), here's today's list:
5 Reasons I Love Writing.
5. Stephen King put it best when he said that writing is like a form of telepathy. I make things up, I write them down, and then you can see them, in your mind. You "hear" dialog that I wrote. You "meet" people that I invented. When I write, I am Emma Frost, and that is awesome.
4. Writing continually surprises me. No matter how long I do it, no matter how much time I spend working to improve, I still find myself staring at things on the page and going "whoa, where did that come from?"
3. Writing comes with a very concrete and visible reward for hard work. If I write 2,000 words, I have 2,000 words that I didn't have before. If I write a book, dude, there is now a book in the world that didn't exist before I started typing. Me! I made that! It's incredibly fulfilling. Very few things in life are this immediately fulfilling.
2. I have to work to write. It's my hobby and what I do to relax and it makes me happy, but it's also work. If I don't revise, edit, check my spelling, check my continuity, and basically do hard labor, I don't get good books. I feel like I've done something when a story is finished, and that's amazing.
1. When I'm writing, I make all the rules. I don't think there's anything better than that.
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I think that is what struck me when I wrote "Polter-Cow." I could make my characters do anything! I WAS THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE!
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I really enjoyed it!
February 26 2010, 16:03:26 UTC 7 years ago
Thank Klono for productive people
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February 25 2010, 18:17:32 UTC 7 years ago
While we're throwing around completely ridiculous possibilities, how about, "survives on less sleep by combining writing, sleeping with her eyes open, and directed dreaming."
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A Local Habitation on the Shelves! Out in the Wild!
February 25 2010, 17:28:22 UTC 7 years ago
I drifted past their book shelves because they have a buy-two-get-one-free paperback sale on right now and lo and behold, there at perfect eye level was A Local Habitation.
Of course I nabbed it!
For anyone in Seattle, it was at the Ballard Fred Meyer, and they have a couple more copies on the shelves for this instant.
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Oh, ok now I get it, because that is how I feel about knitting. Also, I can make 3D objects out of string. How crazy is that?
February 26 2010, 19:32:37 UTC 7 years ago
Making movies in the brain.
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And if it's really good...sometimes it pokes back.
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2) I totally understand and feel you on the telepathy thing, though I'd likely liken myself more to Xavier as I have a thing for saucy, young redheads and the sight of my hairy man-tits in a white leather bustier is not a visual place I think anyone needs to go to. Ever.
Oh crap. My apologies.
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It's out in Maryland!
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Earlier today, I got a call from my best friends, who were on their way to my house but were going to stop in at a Borders store and wanted to know if I wanted any books. I immediately said, "I don't think it's been released yet, but I want Seanan McGuire's A Local Habitation. The release date isn't until March, but you never know." Being my friends, they knew I was asking for something in the SF/Fantasy section. I just got a call back saying, "We have it. It JUST came out like right now." And I actually bounced around on my couch, I was so pleased. So, my copy is on its way via people! (I'm also getting Tara Bray Smith's Betwixt, which I only want because I hear it may be turned into a CW show, and I want to check it out before any rabid teenage fangirls go insane over it).
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That makes me happy. :)
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