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  • Love,compulsion and hope

    Writing. Why do we do it? I've tried to come up with my reasons and the above seems to cover it. I love writing. I'm compelled to do it and I hope I earn enough so that I can write what I want to rather than what I have to.

    Granted it has turned me into an agorophobic sociopath with nerves shot to s&&& but I keep on doing it. Is there a gene that sets us off on this path or is it just common or garden mental instability?

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    I agree with you except for the complusion part. I write because I mean to not because I feel the need to.

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    • #3
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      It's become a major part of my OCD make up.

      The more I do it, the more I want to do it.

      It's very much like masturbation.

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      • #4
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        noh1:

        Don't combine the two. The industry hates sticky pages.

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        • #5
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          It's very much like masturbation.
          Yes, but fortunately your writing is not masturbatory.

          (Mine, on the other hand, often is. :lol )

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          • #6
            "[Writing] is sex with someone I love."

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            • #7
              There goes another perfectly good thread down the crapper.


              Why do I write?
              Well, I honestly don't even want to be a screenwriter forever, I'm much more interested in being behind the camera, directing. But I've got a lot of story ideas that inspire me in the same way that great movies I watch do. So I learned how to write them and design them the long hard way, as an intern/reader.

              I'm going to shoot some shorts, but I have to get off my ass long enough to get the camera down there and focus on them.


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              • #8
                I can't stop the voices in my head.

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                • #9
                  at the end of the day, what else is there?

                  i mean, everyone walks around with that boil of imagination festering nearly all the time.

                  they fantasize about the girl that works the coffee shop counter, they pretend they're in a nascar race on the freeway, they daydream about an exotic adventure to a faraway place, they sing along with the radio like they're onstage at the garden.

                  at least writers are honest enough to lance that boil and let it spill out on the page.

                  next time you walk down the street, look into people's eyes as you pass them. very few of them are in the time and place that their bodies are. they're writing, they just don't know it...

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                  • #10
                    Nicely put, William. Writers are romantics.

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                    • #11
                      So, Tone... what you're saying is you use the other hand?

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                      • #12
                        I use both hands, dude, because my writing is just too much for one hand to deal with.

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                        • #13
                          Masturbation, lancing boils, opening up veins.... what's the connection between writing and bodily fluids?

                          :x

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                          • #14
                            focus on your shorts?

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                            • #15
                              Come on,
                              I thought you Japanese theatre guys were smart.

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