Good morning. Today on Food for Thought. Last weeks prize winer was Brenna Lyons....loud applauding.... Last week a few comments got sent to junk, unfortunatly. Sorry about that. The problems been sorted by the fabbo Tina-sue. So today should be problem free. It also happens sometimes if the post is listed from anonymous. Blogger thinks it as spam.
Sit up, pay attention, because today I am asking the question why??
Now, on a serious note, WHY do you write? The written word is a part of every day life. We use it for communication on all levels. For me writing is therapeutic. It is a way to vent all my pent-up frustrations into a far less volatile form. You can face your anger, fears and stress without bashing the person who embodies those emotions for you with a baseball bat. I write because quite simply, I have to write. I am having one big love affair with the world and sometimes my tongue is too tied and clumsy to enunciate the elegance of language and I can explain it all better through the dance of my fingertips on the keyboard of my computer. I believe that the world is created through language and stories and just maybe, I have a role to play in weaving that.
I found this quote in my travels that I thought was quite beautiful. So I’m sharing.
‘I write because moths drink the tears of sleeping birds.’
Sit up, pay attention, because today I am asking the question why??
I found these little ditties ages ago, I can’t remember where from, but thank you to whoever you are lol
Why - banks leave both doors open and then chain their pens to the counter?
Why - 'abbreviated' is such a long word?
Why - the time of day with the slowest traffic is called the 'rush hour'?
Why – don’t sheep shrink when it rains?
Why - isn't there any mouse-flavoured cat food?
Why – do people leave their valuable cars on their driveways and fill up their garages with useless junk?
Why - banks leave both doors open and then chain their pens to the counter?
Why - 'abbreviated' is such a long word?
Why - the time of day with the slowest traffic is called the 'rush hour'?
Why – don’t sheep shrink when it rains?
Why - isn't there any mouse-flavoured cat food?
Why – do people leave their valuable cars on their driveways and fill up their garages with useless junk?
Please feel free to add a good one to your comment and the best one will win a prize from me.
Now, on a serious note, WHY do you write? The written word is a part of every day life. We use it for communication on all levels. For me writing is therapeutic. It is a way to vent all my pent-up frustrations into a far less volatile form. You can face your anger, fears and stress without bashing the person who embodies those emotions for you with a baseball bat. I write because quite simply, I have to write. I am having one big love affair with the world and sometimes my tongue is too tied and clumsy to enunciate the elegance of language and I can explain it all better through the dance of my fingertips on the keyboard of my computer. I believe that the world is created through language and stories and just maybe, I have a role to play in weaving that.
I found this quote in my travels that I thought was quite beautiful. So I’m sharing.
‘I write because moths drink the tears of sleeping birds.’
Today’s question is, WHY do you write? Do you believe that by letting words flow out of you that it introduces a part of yourself that you’d rather censor from others?
Why write? It is continuing education, constant research and a release of humor. There is no truth to the rumor I write just to thwart my wife.
ReplyDeleteFor me, writing is a natural extension of reading. I do both for pleasure and for escape from the every day living that can sometimes become boring. And because stories fill my head.
ReplyDeleteLike Kay, I have stories being generated in my head all of the time. I write because once they are out in words for others to read, those stories end. Then others begin to fill my mind-scape.
ReplyDeleteAnd for me, it is so much more satisfying than real life, where you have no control over how others act, and there is rarely a happy ending.
I like your reasoning james lol It's looking like we all write to escape into a whole new reality that we can have control over. Thats facinating.
ReplyDeleteIf I could write, which I can't, hence why i just read lol it would defo be to escape into another world. This one's a bit rubbish at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI think that I write because it's one of the only things in my life that I feel I can kinda do somewhat well. I was never any good at sports or art, etc. But I think I actually can string together words pretty darn good.
ReplyDeleteLucy, you are darling. I love your answer.
Are you kidding me? I have to get rid of all the voices in my head of course. If not they crowd me into a corner that is frankly hard to get out of.
ReplyDeleteI have found it hard to pay attention to other things with voices that want to be heard all the time. With stories waiting to be born, it's just too much to let lie in the old brain and not do something about it.
A writer writes because they must to remain sane. Or relatively sane. LOL
It has nothing to do with anything, it's releasing the others to tell their story. It's closure.
We write because we must. A painter paints because he sees the world a certain way. We make a world a certain way. Artistic people must do theses things to maintain sanity and live a half way normal life. It's a need within us.
Love and blessings
Rita Hestand
I have a question for authors. If a reader decided they hated your book, would you take it personally, or just feel they didn't like the story, not you.
ReplyDeleteHi Peggy,
ReplyDeleteLove the question, there could be so many answeres. It really depends on what they hated about it. I don't think I would take it personally. It's hard to please all readers, and what one reader hates, another may love.
Also to answer why I write. I just love to entertain readers. If they are entertained, laugh a little, cry a little, I think that is wonderful. It makes me feel good.
Now, if reviewers hated my book, I'd probably sit in the corner and cry. But, so far, so good with reviewers.
Okay, just for fun, I'll answer your questions:
ReplyDeleteWhy - banks leave both doors open and then chain their pens to the counter? Because the doors aren't going anywhere, but give the customers a chance, the pens will.
Why - 'abbreviated' is such a long word? Because it's meant to describe, not be abbreviated itself.
Why - the time of day with the slowest traffic is called the 'rush hour'? If people weren't rushing around, there wouldn't be so much traffic (also it's the time when more people are on the road trying to get home lol)
Why – don’t sheep shrink when it rains? Wool probably only shrinks after it's shorn lol
Why - isn't there any mouse-flavoured cat food? I think PETA can explain that - because of loonies like them who would object to the inhumane treatment of mice, even in flavoring.
Why – do people leave their valuable cars on their driveways and fill up their garages with useless junk? Because they don't really want to be bothered to park in the garage - now they have a reason why they can't.
lol Forgive me if I answered those questions which were probably meant more tongue in cheek, but that's just me.
Why do I wrote? Because I love it, and because I'm good at it. I love to tell stories, to create characters and play with them. To have people read what I write and hopefully enjoy it.
It's what I was born to do, I truly believe that.
Good blog, as usual, Mags!
To paraphrase something - why do I write? why do I breathe?
ReplyDelete@Peggy - I don't expect everyone to like everything I write. They're just stories. If a person said, "I hate this author's book," I would understand he or she didn't like what I wrote. Now, if that person said, "I hate that author," I might be inclined to wonder when they met me and got to know me in order to form such an opinion. The things I write are a part of me--there's no escaping that. But I'm way more than the works of fiction I produce and if someone bases an opinion of me on those, they aren't seeing the whole picture. On the other hand, if they do prejudge me based on what I write, I probably wouldn't be inclined to meet them in order to try to change their opinion because I think that might be impossible.
ReplyDeletelol julie, you have far too much free time ha ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteLorrie, i had a stinky review once from a reviewer lol I just moved on gritting my teeth. Good answer kay.
Peggy,
ReplyDeleteI missed your question, so here goes.
It's hard not to take it personally, cause you invest yourself personally in your writing. Sometimes people confuse the issues. Maybe it's not the book they dislike, but the characters. In that case, you've done a good job, made people so real they invite hate! But sometimes it's the book itself, or the writing style. There are some writers that make me scratch my head and ask why they bother. Luckily people have different tastes. You lose one readers in one place, gain one in another.
I write because I love words and telling stories. Besides being introverted, writing allows me to express my feelings and beliefs in a way I never can via speech.
ReplyDeleteAnd if I don't write the little demons in my head will make it explode. LOL.
euwww that would make a horrible mess if you exploded lol
ReplyDeleteI have had a reviewer not like one of my books, and while I found that painful, I lived. I figured at least it was read, and someone cared enough to comment on it, even if they didn't like it. It means my writer's voice came through, and not all people like me either, so no foul.
ReplyDeleteI find it harder to take when NO ONE reads my books! The voices were so excited to be put into a book, so they could have life in someone else's brain also, not just mine. Then to be ignored? That smarts.