Gathering of the Figments

Dare To Dream · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:12 am Post subject: D&M

I just felt like having a bit of a deep and meaningful, although not much of what I say is deep or meaningful or perhaps it is. A question for the ages 'do I ever spout something that isn't complete and utter nonsense?', so far I'm leaning towards 'no'.

What to say, what to say... alright well this is a writing site so I'll go deep and meaningful about writing, or at least I'll try.

When I'm writing I feel like a completely different person. I feel free like I can say whatever I want and not ruin my 'rep' or whatever. When I write I feel different because I can't rely on any of the things I feel like I use to cruise through life usually. I can't rely on looks or on money, I've got to use my brain and my heart and I don't have anything to hide behind and at the same time I have everything to hide behind.

Writing is like the only time I can be myself and at the same time it's not me. I'm still Charlie, but I'm Charlie the person not Charlie the slut, or Charlie the trust fund kid, or Charlie the dumbass.

When I'm writing I'm not limited to being me either, I can be a witch, I can be a werewolf, I can be dead, I can be anything that comes to mind. If someone told me I was living in my own world it wouldn't be the first time and when I'm writing I am in my own world and I couldn't be happier. So there you go, that's all I have to say for now. Please come be deep and meaningful with me! Very Happy

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Aurora Asha Ila · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:15 am Post subject:

i understand where your coming from with the hiding thing. Especially with poetry, i've barely shown my family or friends that i write it. I liken that ease to shift between not hiding feelings and then trying to hide the poem to a transparent wall.

I don't know if thats the correct sort of metaphor, nor do i really care, i just think its extremely applicable and works in this case...for me. at least.

You sit down and you can write poetry about your neighbor or your best friend, you can write about your own feelings or your perception and interpretation of the feelings of others, its true that the form you can take is unlimited, however i generally find that the extraordinary hiding with ordinary, everyday things is the most truly fascinating thing to write about. Elaborative truths and strength in exaggeration, even the shocking truth that sounds so out of the ordinary, but is a totally real situation. I love that... Don't you?

F*** grammatical expertise. Thats for essays. Poetry you put grammar in for flow, and someone else does it for you if you get an editor for your novels. I even put grammar in my stories purely for phrasing...
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I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty, city,
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all.

Extract from Clancy and the Overflow, by A.B. Patterson.
Ironically he never actually went outside of a city his entire life, let alone Droving. phht. Henry Lawson was much more acurate, he didnt romanticise the Aussie bush.

The Grey Dawn · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:54 am Post subject:

I'm not going to tell you why I write. I'm going to show you. The first story I ever finished (it was a short story) I wrote because I was feeling particularly depressed (a stage that I got through thanks to writing). So I wrote a story about being trapped (and then I wrote a companion piece about being too free). I poured all my emotion into that piece, and I came out of it devoid of emotion (which was a good thing). Writing is my form of escapism (playing instrument is my other form). That is one way I write.
Of course sometimes I write for the pure joy of living in a world where anything can happen. And so I form characters who become part of me. I follow these people (who are very much independent of me) through their hardships. And it's fascinating for me to watch what is going on in their head.
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Shaye · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

I just wrote like a whole page about how I feel and yada yada yada and then I realized it was the most boring and stupid thing ever.

But now I'll write this: I have writers' block like nobody's business.
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The Bee · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:57 am Post subject:

I'm sorry, Shaye, but who has zero words for their FigNo?
Right. Me. SOOOOOO I think you're a little bit better off.

I'm not sure why I right, really.
I think at first it was because I enjoyed reading so much and I was just like: I want to make something that someone will enjoy as much as I enjoy reading [insert book name here].
Not to mention it's fun creating characters that can do what you can't. It's sort of like having a second life through them.
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Hawkins · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:25 am Post subject:

I started reading at 18 months old, and started drawing before that...I always wanted to be an artist, because I loved drawing...but I told myself that "they don't have artists anymore". I honestly don't know how I figured out at 18 months that all the good artists lived in the 1200's and whatnot, but anyway...so after I convinced myself that even though I loved to draw, I was no good at it and then turned to writing. And...that's about it. :/
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The Bee · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

What about Andy Warhol?

Pablo Picasso (wasn't he resent-ish?)

Frida Kahlo? She's only the biggest thing in the America's. (Or so claim my Spanish teachers)
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Hawkins · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

I meant like Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh and such...Rennessance artists, or however you spell it...and Picasso? PFFT, modern art isn't art; it's just a bunch of squares and such! I thought art was supposed to have a real vision to it, not just "ooh, that square looks good next to that other one. MAN would this look good next to the water cooler! Now I'm going to color it and sell it for millions!" PFFT. My cousin can draw real abstract art; not just wannabe squares. -_-'
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Dare To Dream · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Hawk are you always such a pessimist? I've decided to keep this post short because the last 2 times I've tried to post it hasn't worked and I've had to start all over again and they were long posts too Sad

plus my my eyes are all blurry and my head hurts. Oh yeah Hawks, someday I'm challenging you to a drinking contest.
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Shaye · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject:

I write because of The Beatles.

I also write because of my swingset.

I write because of goldfish.

I write because of hand lotion.

I write because of carnivals.

Now with those crucial bits out of the way, I write because if you've ever just layed around in the sun on a summer day and looked at all the clouds, and you feel like you're totally paying attention, but then you find yourself waking up in the grass quite a bit later - that's like the feeling I get when I write. It's like "I'm doing this because it's important! And meaningful! And it's fun!" but then you kind of doze off and reread all the things you've written and then you wonder how much of your soul just spilled out onto that peice of paper.

I think us writers were given the gift or talent of writing down our souls because our souls have something to say. I know for a fact that everyone on this forum has something to contribute to this world, and I think we are meant to do it through our writing.

I write because I have to.

And I have to because I write.
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The Bee · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

*thinks Shaye has definitely got this deep and meaningful thing down*
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The Grey Dawn · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject:

Hawkins · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject:

I am pessimistic, yes. And you will lose said contest, because I am part viking. GR.
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Dare To Dream · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject:

Shaye I can really feel the poet in you!

I have never lost a drinking contest in my life! I maybe be small, but don't let that fool you. Victory shall be mine!
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Shaye · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

Like Pat Benatar.

Man, she was tinyyy but BOY CAN SHE SING!

Only 2 good versions of Wuthering Heights out there, and she's one of them.

I do not thing the woman who wrote it sings it very well. She has this weird vibrato to her voice that just makes her sound nasally.

Bah.
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