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Nitheria wrote: "To express yourself through words and write what comes to mind is amazing because the mind can muster up some exciting things."Nitheria wrote: "To express yourself through words and write what comes to mind is amazing because the mind can muster up some exci
I write because the characters in my mind command me to do so. ;P They are just never satisfied with staying confined to the recesses of my imagination.
Affter I did it I had to do more n more....So strange how it grows into something it's magical and to read that feest of joy you gave birth to well that's amazing. It's storytellers that make dreams into anything I think.
Nicholas wrote: "Why Write?"I am very good at pontificating long and pretentious answers about "why" I love to write. I make myself sound all deep and passionate and pretend to be a tortured artist who is "compelled" to create! Yeah, I can do that. I can invent loads of very convincing tripe that people would easily believe. I can go on and on for pages about it, and get very philosophical, as I crawl up my own rectum and act like I'm smelling roses.
But the truth is much simpler than all of that...
Writing is really damn fun.
Eric wrote: "Nicholas wrote: "Why Write?"I am very good at pontificating long and pretentious answers about "why" I love to write. I make myself sound all deep and passionate and pretend to be a tortured artis..."
10-4 on that Eric! When will the dissertation be given?
Nicholas wrote: "A fantasy novelist is:Someone who lives in a world of their own, where people can fly and trains run on time.
Sometimes hears voices in theirs heads and believe this is normal
Not only believ..."
Excluding the eating steak with a spoon, the rest is all true :D
Having an imagination makes life livable. That's why I write.
It's amazing how we can create whole worlds inside our heads. More amazing that the worlds we create there can both heal our hearts and break them...
I think, both of you, are right. Having an, imagination, can take, a person, anywhere, they want to go. We learn this, as children, playing, make believe, games. So can see, where, you are comming from. Wish, I could put, mine, on paper, but will, leave it, to the, authors of the world, to do that. I will stick, to the reading part, because its so much fun. I can visulize, all of the scenary, & every little thing, the, Author, describes.
I write because it distracts me from things. Its a time where I can write endless possibilities and make things happen that wouldn't happen day to day. Its just fun. I hope people enjoy my work. It was fun to write.
I like the slitted eye on the cover of The Guardians. Also the bright scarlet-colour of eye set against the greyscale face.
The vampires in my first novel have slitted eyes (see illustration), although not red, but I've never really found a way to make it work well on a cover.
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Jennifer wrote: "I write because it distracts me from things. Its a time where I can write endless possibilities and make things happen that wouldn't happen day to day. Its just fun. I hope people enjoy my work. It..."Francis wrote: "I like the slitted eye on the cover of The Guardians. Also the bright scarlet-colour of eye set against the greyscale face.
The vampires in my first novel have s..."
I like the Cover of HRANA.
Thanks :-) I think it works okay when large, but not so well scaled down.Several years after writing it, I discovered that Hrana is the Serbian word for food, which is bizarrely ironic - a vampire called 'Food'...
Write because it is in my DNA.My ancestors from the distant past whisper in my ear and will me to speak for them, tell of what once was.
My novel is,
Celtic Blood
When darkness falls and witches meet, evil into men's heart's, does creep.
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Hello All! I've been reading through the comments and it's nice to see I'm not alone in being driven to write. I just self-published a novel, The Vampire Diary of Buster Keaton. I'm a huge fan of Keaton, the 1920s, and vampires (the Anne Rice variety). The novel came about because of a silly comment made by my brother, but it took root. Exploring Keaton's complicated personality in a paranormal setting and creating an alternate history for a section of his life was tremendous fun.
I hope to post an excerpt here, though being computer-challenged, it may take me a while to do it.
Whether people discover the book or not, who can say? (I'm thinking probably not.) In any case, I'm happy with it and looking forward to writing about the places my imagination takes me to.
Growing up I always felt I had a universe in my head and writing was simply pouring some of them out. It is very much a cathartic experience for me, whether it is poetry or stories. When I wrote Whitby After Dark - Volume 1 I was using it as a means of therapy, to fight the traumas of past abuse and using the metaphor of demons to represent real life monsters. The protagonist is simply a representation of me (but not really me), albeit in a fantastical world rather than the real world. Writing expressed wish fulfillment and in the case of poetry, being able to vent the inner self.
My name is Kevin Ranson and my first full-length novel was The Matriarch, a vampire horror thriller. I tried writing this book in college 25 years ago but was smart enough to know I wasn't smart enough to get it done then the way I had envisioned it; what seemed so difficult then was much simpler two decades later. Now the idea that could barely fill one book has filled two already with two more planned; what a difference a little actual life experience makes in the mind of a writer!
I write to create worlds I can lose myself in. Needless to say, I write best when I'm depressed and pissed off at the world
I do my best writing when I'm frustrated and angry with people's ideas, assumptions and conventions.Seduced by perversity and rising to a challenge... My poetry too. I can go days unable to think of a poem I want to write, and then someone will suggest a particular rhyming scheme and the poem will almost write itself.
I've got really into Supergirl this year, partly because I'd decided I wasn't interested in superheroes and would never write poems about them - and having said that, I adopted Supergirl and made a hero I could love.
The only exposure to Supergirl is the one movie they had about her by that name, which was kind of lame. Where are you reading about her--comic books, graphic novels, or what? Did you change her in your poems? I'm curious. I liked the Superman movies, especially the first Christopher Reeve one and the last one before Man of Steel, which I haven't seen yet. At the writer's conference I came across a great answer to this thread's question that I decided to adopt myself. George Orwell wrote: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." That image reminds me of my vampires. As I'm going to say on my wordpress blog, I like to think I'm driven more by an angel than a demon, but there are people--and some of my characters, I'd say--who'd disagree.
Stella wrote: "Growing up I always felt I had a universe in my head and writing was simply pouring some of them out. It is very much a cathartic experience for me, whether it is poetry or stories. When I wrote [b..."What Stella said here resonates with me. I have been through abuse and trauma and confusion myself, and I find metaphors like vampires more interesting and "safe" ways to write about what I've been through. It would be hard writing about characters going through torture unless I had been through torture myself. If I had never been the victim of mind games, why write about a vampire's hypnotism? It's easier to use horror-type stuff than actual human everyday horrors when you want to convey the emotional impact. We all know what it's like to fear monsters under the bed. Sometimes those monsters are real. Sometimes they share our beds. I seek to express these horrors--ways through them and out of them. It is very cathartic, and I hope it will be for readers as well. Some people will get it from the barest touch. Others won't if you hit them over the head with it.
Sounds like you're driven by demons and inspired by angels...Robin wrote: "The only exposure to Supergirl is the one movie they had about her by that name, which was kind of lame. Where are you reading about her--comic books, graphic novels, or what? Did you change her in..."
The best explanation is here: https://alinameridon.wordpress.com/20...
And there's an index of sorts here:
http://franklyuninspired.blogspot.co....
I write because Vampires have lost their way in recent years what with sparkling and other abilities that didn't make sense to me, so I wanted to give life to how I saw Vampires and how they're most likely to walk among us. I approach life from a Vampire's perspective with realistic grit.
Ooh! Hi!I bought your book yesterday... so nice to see a Bathory book that respects the historical figure and not the myth.
If you ever feel like doing a guest post on my blog you'd be more than welcome...
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Or if you're in the mood for a character interview, take a look at:
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... although neither will guarantee celebrity.
Best wishes with sales & reviews either way.
Frank
Romina wrote: "I write because Vampires have lost their way in recent years what with sparkling and other abilities that didn't make sense to me, so I wanted to give life to how I saw Vampires and how they're mos..."Yeah, the sparkling was a bit much. I write simply because the characters have a story to tell ... and if I don't tell it, they will never leave me in peace. :)
Francis wrote: "Or if you're in the mood for a character interview, take a look at ..."How are you Francis? I have just picked a bunch of questions for Julia and Samuel to answer, lol. I like the questions on that site; they are very intelligent questions. I probably won't go for the whole award thing, but the character interview thing can be fun. :)
The character interview's the main thing, the rest is optional fun. Let me know when & where you publish the interviews and I'll add links on the award blog.
Francis wrote: "The character interview's the main thing, the rest is optional fun. Let me know when & where you publish the interviews and I'll add links on the award blog."Cool, thanks Francis. I hope to get them done before Thanksgiving.
Hi, folks! As usual, I'm apologizing for a long silence. I have been thinking of you all--and working on my stories when I can, which is not as much as I'd like to. Theresa, did you do that interview? I would love to read it. I still owe everyone at least one more interview, the one where Carletta is supposed to interview Luke. I don't know what Luke has up his sleeve or how he's going to answer the rest of the questions. He's not an honest man, however much he might masquerade as one. He got Carletta to answer questions she didn't want to answer and say things she didn't want to admit, much less think about, but Luke is the one with the upper hand. I am actually thinking on my back burner about adding to Luke's intentions and actions, and I need more of a context for the interview, so I guess I have a reason to put the interview off besides my busyness with other things. I did add a different blog post not long ago, and more details to the information about the Anti-Vampirism Society (AVS) series that I am working on. Suddenly, I had a whole bunch of new followers on my Wordpress blog--more than ever before--not sure why. I was suspicious because at that time Wordpress wasn't letting me view a friend's blog without loading new software. I was getting all these advertising and survey popups all over the place, which slowed my computer way down and forced me to do things I didn't want to and didn't know about. I don't know what if anything I did to start this flood of problems, but it scared me to go back to Wordpress at the time. My computer appeared to die, but has been restored from scratch by a friend. So now Ernie (that's the name I've given to this laptop) has something in common with undead vampires--a new beginning. Anyway, you can check out the new stuff on my blog here: href="http://robinlayneauthor.wordpress.com....
I have been intending to blog about my struggle over deciding whether and how to divide my first book into two books. I'm still thinking about how I want to approach that.
Hi, Romina! I agree with you about recent vampires losing their way. And Theresa, my characters are very lively and insistent as well--but as I have been warned, I can't show them off unless I can give them something to do. I was handed both the main characters and the plot on a silver platter through a dream for the first book or two. But for the second I have a really good new character to introduce and two little plot. What to do? I have been advised to use a certain website to brainstorm ideas for future stories, and I haven't gotten around to using it. One barrier is that most of the time I put in working on the story is when I'm at my writing class, and the place has no WIFI. I must do it on other time, at home. Don't believe I've told you folks: I am now teaching/facilitating a writing class every Saturday. Not many people come, but that gives me dedicated time to work on writing!
I have to say that long books - anything over 300 pages - always strikes me as indulgent and unnecessary, with the exception of epic fantasy where world-building and multiple characters are major factors.It certainly stood out with Harry Potter that the quality of the books diminished rapidly with No. 4, just as the page count shot through the ceiling.
Which is not to say you can't have long books, but it's really worth looking at the plot and rethinking it as a pair or even trilogy.
I write because... it's my life. So, hard to explain for me. I'm fine when I write. Serene. It's a kind of food for me, as if I needed it to function properly.
I love when I find a compelling theme to write on.
Francis wrote: "I have to say that long books - anything over 300 pages - always strikes me as indulgent and unnecessary, with the exception of epic fantasy where world-building and multiple characters are major f..."That is an interesting point of view Francis. I've read quite a few books that were between 300 and 400 pages that were very good. That said, you have a good point about evaluating plot and whether or not it should be divided or shortened.
I personally look for books over 300 pages. But anything over 500 and I agree they could have divided it into two.
i read any books at the moment i am reading the musketeers and that has way more then 300 pages.
I lost interest in that about halfway through.It's not that a long book is necessarily bad. I have enjoyed many books that exceed 300 pages. But often a long length is an indication that the author is not as focussed on the core plot as they could be.
With high fantasy novels, the extra length usually results from having a complex world to explore along with multiple character arcs. But since that is a reader expectation, it's not such an issue.
With Goblet of Fire and its sequels, on the other hand, I was bored and irritated with the books almost from the start - unlike the earlier books which were really well paced.
I write because it's the ultimate drug addiction. I'm addicted to the feeling I get when I'm in the zone. It's extremely hard to put into words, but I often imagine it's like getting into a hot bath after a hard day and your muscles are sore. The feeling of complete relaxation envelopes me and two hours can slip away without me even realizing it. That feeling is my ultimate drug and I hope I never break the addiction.
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Why do I write?I write to give readers enjoyment and make them forget the world for a little bit. I write to read the stories I can't find. I write to relax.
Casually resurrecting a five-and-a-half year old thread... lol. And hi! :-)
Francis wrote: "Casually resurrecting a five-and-a-half year old thread... lol. And hi! :-)"Funny how that happens. And hi, Francis and Jeffrey.
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