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it's a madhouse, this modern life
musings of a misfit

writing
July 08, 2005 @ 02:08:22 am

I need to be bitten by the writing bug again. Bit of a rant, read on if you'd like...

I haven't written anything descent in such a long time. My muse took off on a completely unauthorized hiatus, and she won't return my f**king phone calls...no no, must be nice to her, just in case. I have no more inspiration. I don't know what happened, or why. I just can't seem to write anymore, and it really bothers me. I always thought I could be a writer, at least as a hobby. This has always been a big part of my life, and it's slipping away from me. I wish I knew what to do. I'm hoping it's just a phase, and that something else will happen and...I don't know, fix it. W. Somerset Maugham said that "we do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."

And what happens when we can't?
Current Music: pete yorn

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joni Mega Über-Meister 4962 points	July 08, 2005 @ 02:12:46 am
	We write about having nothing to write about. There you go. You just wrote something.

Lili Monk 39223 points	July 08, 2005 @ 02:21:27 am
	every writer in existance has had writers block at some point. It'll pass.

wib654 Über-Meister 1545 points	July 08, 2005 @ 02:35:23 am
	Well, this is a good start in wrting again...you wrote something!!

shaggyjebus

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July 08, 2005 @ 12:11:07 pm

"we do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."

That's true . . . in the Dark Tower series, Stephen King talks of how he has to write but doesn't, how he keeps from doing it. That's what I have been doing. I have had plenty of ideas, I always do, but I haven't written in a while. I started something the other night, but I need to continue it. I just . . . I want to, but I don't. I'm not sure why. It's hard to write. But as King and that guy you quoted meant, it is not our choice to write. We are communicating something powerful. We have an obligation to write. I have been failing my world, my universe.

But I'm sure your block will pass. After all, just as we cannot say that we simply do not want to write, we cannot simply say that we want to write, that we want a muse. It will come when it is ready. It will come when it is needed.

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