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Writing-passion, art, and so much more...

July 3rd 2008 04:02
To the true writer, to the serious writer, writing is a passion; an art. It is more than that though-it is the writer's soul, their life, their purpose. Writing isn't about mechanics. It's about love.

Only someone who truly loves the work they're doing can become a truly amazing writer. It takes so much time and effort to write something beautiful, especially a novel, but more than that it takes passion and love. You have to feel for your characters-or as your characters-and you have to feel connected to the plot.

You have to be able to identify with it, to understand it, to feel it on a deeper level. Your story must be your life. It has to be something you understand, something you love. Somethig you can pour your heart into. That is the mark of a truly great novel. Not formula; not its specific plot.


But the passion which goes into making that specific novel. Let me tell you something-if you take your plot to its bare-bones format, I can virtually guarantee to you that it has been done. But it is your unique twists, your unique way of writing it, that makes it stand out.

It is your unique qualities which you put into your work to make it unique, to make it a work of art. If you lack the passion for it, the love for it, you cannot give it that unique quality. You cannot truly make it your own.

I ask you now-do you have the passion?
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Becoming The Character

July 1st 2008 05:44
Some actors become their roles; when in role, they think and feel as if they were the character in reality. Often with a very loose grip of the truth, and sometimes without a grip of it at all.

Some writers become their characters. It is an art form and it is the purest, in my mind, form of characterization. To really become your character, not just control them and tell them what to do; but to feel as though you and that character are one. For writers who plan this may not be so great. Personally I get so into it that I don't know what comes next, I may know some future event but nothing in the 'now' of the story.


Because in reality you DON'T know. It's one of the most organic ways of writing. I love it; it feels almost like a trance. You just... become one with the character. And when you are your character, nothing is certain. It all relies on other characters, does it not?

Writing is at once like real life and not like real life. There are so many metaphors, and character interactions, and many things that on a deep level relate. Those interactions and metaphors make it easier to fall into the story as a reader.

Often as a reader you identify with the main character. Become the main character in your mind; have the same wishes to do with the story as the character. And sometimes, like the character, you cannot turn away from the events. The best writers, I believe, do that same thing while they write.

Many times I have been unable to stop writing, in a trance. I roleplay on forums; on numerous occasions I have said to myself 'One more post and then bed'. Most of the time when I say that I go to bed thirteen posts later. I get so into the story I cannot leave it.

I do that when reading too. One of the worst things for my sleep is if I start reading a book at midnight or even nine o'clock, depending on the book's size. I think maybe it's that addiction to reading, and that ability to become one with the character, that marks a good writer.

Then again, I don't know. Who am I to judge my own writing, anyway?

I have an exercise for you. Write 200 words of any situation with the main character of either one of your own stories or novels, or of a book you really like. Post it here or on your blog and link to it in a comment.
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Words On A Page

June 16th 2008 03:56
Writing: the art of putting COHERENT words on a page... and so much more.

Just because you can perform the act of writing words coherently doesn't make you a true writer. A true writer takes talent and hard work. To be a true writer you have to be determined to write, to want to write, to love writing.

Not just to be able to write a bunch of sentences and put them together so they make sense. Sorry. The rules of writing are simple....

1-Write a lot
2-Read a lot
3-If at first you don't succeed, try, try again

In other words 1-write AND FINISH STUFF, 2-READ AND FINISH BOOKS and 3-rewrite and try many publishers and agents if it's good enough.

I don't have much else to say tonight 'cause I'm sick but please don't say you're a writer... if writing isn't your passion.
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Challenging Oneself

June 15th 2008 17:44
Part of being a writer is challenging yourself. You have to challenge yourself to write. You have to challenge yourself to, say, write a blog every day. Or a few pages of your novel. Or a short story. Even a poem.

But without challenging yourself to do your best and do it every single day, you're not going to make it anywhere. Oh hell, most of us aren't gonna make it anywhere ANYWAY. LIfe is just like that; it sucks. Plain and simple. But at least we can TRY


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Support Nanowrimo! (LINK)

June 14th 2008 00:09
Reading something over on Writer's Notes (link included to blog) got me thinking about NaNoWriMo. So I checked out the site.

And discovered that one of their fundraisers which they did not expect to work out worked out beautifully. I am so happy to hear it! I love Nanowrimo and have been a firm supporter for four years now. I always wished I could donate. But I have never yet had the money. Here we go, though, I've got something to show off-a free and easy way to support NaNoWriMo


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A Writer's Work

June 13th 2008 23:14
What good is writing?

Let me tell you what writing is good for


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Trying To Start Again

June 13th 2008 21:09
It's so hard... so hard. I've been through hell the last few months and I've lost all drive to live. All drive to write.

But I'm back. I'm going to try again. I HAVE to try again. If I am to survive the hardest trials of my life, if I am to survive these things, I must write. I have always written. It is my release. It has been with me since grade three, one of my hard years. It was there when I had to move, Daddy got sick, my parents split up. It was there all throughout the worst school ever


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A Lack Of Drive

March 11th 2008 00:47
I haven't been writing much and to be honest a lot of my drive seems to have disappeared with a stressful weekend. I'm sick, lacking smokes, possibly being broken up with, among other things.

It sucks to be me. And when it sucks to be me... sometimes that's good for my writing, other times it's horrible. Right now it's horrible


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Writing Is My Work

February 27th 2008 04:40
Writing is my work, my passion, my joy in life. Writing is everything to me; it is the one thing I have had for six years, the one thing that I rely on and trust in.

And there may be something called a 'day job' but I'm praying I'll never need one. I guess I didn't really see much hope until that publication. Now I'm out searching for more of the same and I'm ridiculously happy


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Back

February 14th 2008 12:41
Have you ever noticed that the best writers go through some of the hardest times? I cannot begin to describe to you how much I have suffered in the last two months. I was fighting with my mother; I went into an open relationship before being dumped by a guy I'm completely head over heels with, I managed to fail all my first semester classes, and I suffered a hospital overnight after which I became severely stress sick for over a week.

All writers go through times like these. And I have written so much and been so inspired during this whole time that I'm almost grateful for the pain. In the end though, it all worked out well


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Writing for yourself

January 25th 2008 01:04
There are those who write for money; those who write for others; but in the end, the best of us are those who write for passion, for themselves before all others.

Writing for yourself is one of the most rewarding activities in the world. When you write for yourself, there's a certain pleasure gained. You write because you love to write, and when you do that, the words can pour out


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A Notebook-The Poor Man's Laptop

January 24th 2008 03:36
As a writer, odds are you're going to want to write outside of your home, quite plausibly away from your desktop. And we're not all rich enough for a laptop.

This post is, in essence, the guide to stationary. Starting with notebooks


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To Be A Writer

January 23rd 2008 05:16
The arts; very few of us competely lack passion for all of them. I have a passion for most of them, even if I don't have a talent for them. Each and every last one of them is a cut-throat business in which it's a one in a million chance you'll succeed in.

And to walk along an artsy path is difficult. But for those of us truly passionate about our writing, we will walk along it, we will travel, and we will try and try again where others might give up and walk away


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...Sleep? She is for the weak. Inspiration? Apparently not for me.

January 4th 2008 11:57
It's almost seven in the morning, and what have I done? Read a horror book. (Fun to do in the middle of the night, especially when your family is asleep and all the lights are off, and you have to go to the bathroom...) And I've been inspired, but I'm not entirely what I want to write.

All I know is that I want to write something dark, very dark, perhaps darker than anything I've written before. I've started two stories and one was a complete flop, the other seems good but I dunno... it's something that I like, but there's another story itching to get out and I can't put a finger on it


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