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.

It's out in Maryland!

brightlotusmoon

February 27 2010, 19:11:11 UTC 7 years ago

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I just wanted to share a cute story.

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).