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10. The only numbers you have to worry about are page numbers and word count – and MS Word takes care of that for you.
9. When one of your characters pisses you off, you can get even with him in all sorts of diabolical ways – try that with your coworkers.
8. Seriously, when else will you get to plot a bank heist and not wind up arrested?
7. In normal society, when you sit around talking to yourself, they call you crazy. When you tell them you’re a writer, you become, ‘creative’.
6. You can strike fear in the hearts of friends and acquaintances by hinting that they’ll be included in your novel. (They all think they’ll be included either way, of course).
5. A writer’s daily adventure is only limited by his or her imagination. Pirate play, anyone?
4. You can wade waist deep in books and information on any topic that catches your passion – and it’s called research!!! Come on, how much cooler does it get?
3. You can populate your story with the most colorful, loyal, witty, amazing people you’ll ever meet – and then you get to hang out with them and call it work!
2. There is no dress code for writing fiction.
1. Writing gives you a chance to make sense of the story. It doesn’t replace life, but it makes the experience of living more powerful.
What reasons make your list? And have you done any writing today?
6 comments:
1. When you write fiction, you can change the world single-handed.
2. Writing a story, any story, forces you to understand both sides of your issue. If you go into it with an open mind and a willing heart, you will transcend the pettiness of conflict.
3. Creating fiction is juggling desire and necessity, fantasy and possibility.
No one knows I'm borderline schizophrenic since the voices in my head end up on paper.
Actually, that seems like an extension of the "crazy" when you mutter to yourself becoming "creative" when you tell people you write.
Great list. I especially like the "no dress code" except for when the UPS delivery arrives at noon and I have not even brushed my hair.
This is great! Reminds me that writing doesn't always have to be work, it's a privilege. Thank you.
If you go into it with an open mind and a willing heart, you will transcend the pettiness of conflict.
I love that!
There are a lot of awesome things about writing, the writing that makes it out there and even the writing that ends up under the bed. I don't think there's any other experience quite like it - or as well worth the sweat, effort, and bruised forehead from pounding your head off the keyboard. ;-)
Love this! Especially 1, 2, and 8. I'd add:
Daydreaming is no longer a waste of time.
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