SaltwaterServr
Blank Paper Offends Me
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I picked up a book tonight about writing fiction after seeing it referenced a few times online. It's been helpful already in the first two chapters. One part I found amusing was the introductory author's reasons on why his literature students found the need to write:
I like blank paper
To meet people I find interesting
Writing puts me in a world that has not been written yet
When I manage to turn pages and pages of crap into a little bit of art, I feel like that girl in the Diamonds Are Forever ad.
Writing gives me permission to be a child and play with words the way that children play with blocks or twigs or mud
Writing makes me a god. Each new page enables me to create and destroy as many worlds as I please.
It allows me to spy on my neighbors
It's the only socially acceptable way to be a compulsive liar
I want to cleanse the past
This question drives me crazy
There is nothing else I want to do more
Because I can
My soul will not be still until the words are written on paper.
Because I must
I can't not
I want to be good at something and I've tried everything else.
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For me right now I'm enjoying concocting the various little nudges towards a cliff to a person that influences their decision making process. Eventually they've made a decision and cannot fathom the consequences until they're off the edge of the precipice and staring the results rushing headlong to their demise. Some pull the cord on their parachute and see the ripples of their influence radiate out into the ether and others forego salvation and readily slam into unforgiving fate.
A few quotes I've picked up attributed to E.M. Forster:
There are only two plots in all of fiction, somebody goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
A plot is a lot like life, with the boring parts removed.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug. - Mark Twain.
I like blank paper
To meet people I find interesting
Writing puts me in a world that has not been written yet
When I manage to turn pages and pages of crap into a little bit of art, I feel like that girl in the Diamonds Are Forever ad.
Writing gives me permission to be a child and play with words the way that children play with blocks or twigs or mud
Writing makes me a god. Each new page enables me to create and destroy as many worlds as I please.
It allows me to spy on my neighbors
It's the only socially acceptable way to be a compulsive liar
I want to cleanse the past
This question drives me crazy
There is nothing else I want to do more
Because I can
My soul will not be still until the words are written on paper.
Because I must
I can't not
I want to be good at something and I've tried everything else.
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For me right now I'm enjoying concocting the various little nudges towards a cliff to a person that influences their decision making process. Eventually they've made a decision and cannot fathom the consequences until they're off the edge of the precipice and staring the results rushing headlong to their demise. Some pull the cord on their parachute and see the ripples of their influence radiate out into the ether and others forego salvation and readily slam into unforgiving fate.
A few quotes I've picked up attributed to E.M. Forster:
There are only two plots in all of fiction, somebody goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
A plot is a lot like life, with the boring parts removed.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug. - Mark Twain.
