5 reasons I love writing.: seanan

5 reasons I love writing.

I'm a writer. I've been a writer for as long as I've had a grasp of written language, although my earliest works were, admittedly, not all that complex. I get asked "when did you start writing?" pretty commonly in interviews, and my response is always something along the lines of "I have no idea, in the womb, maybe, I don't know." Because really, I don't.

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.

Thank Klono for productive people

sasquatch1313

February 25 2010, 17:26:25 UTC 7 years ago

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5 days! It's awfully hard for me to find enough good new material to read to keep up with my habit(thank goodness I'm one of the few who can reread without pain or I'd really be S.O.L.). Your ability to write as much as you do is amazing. Knowing you, the fact that you ever sit still long enough to write goes beyond amazing to absolutely miraculous. Thanks for helping to keep a reading addict hooked and, upon reflection, a filk addict and, and... Are you sure you're not in possession of a time machine or some weird sort of mentally conjoined triplets or something? 'Cause you're just way too awesome for a single linear existence. ;)

Re: Thank Klono for productive people

dornbeast

February 25 2010, 18:17:32 UTC 7 years ago

Are you sure you're not in possession of a time machine or some weird sort of mentally conjoined triplets or something?

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."