Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Finis: A Response to "Writing"

I've rewritten this blog post three times.
The first two were emotionally satisfying blog rants about my opinions. This post should hopefully be something else.
In latin, Finis means end, or in other words, finished.
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Writing is an art because it is a bitch. Say what you want about metaphorical you's making you slave and suffer,  (Not that there is anything wrong with that. It just doesn't work for me) but in my perspective, it is because you owe a debt to the words that it is a bitch.
It could be easy. It could be the rambling ugly posts that I put here often without editing. It could be self-satisfied rants and fantasies. That's what writing could be if we didn't owe it to ourselves and the words we love that we do better.
Writing isn't hard. Monkeys can type words into keyboards. It's crafting stories and universes out of sheer words that's difficult, of gently pushing ideas into one's mind without declaring your opinion too loudly that's hard.
That's all.
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*I would be totally lying if I said I got that great great word from something other than the end of two of my favorite manga series back in middle school (Both of which all of you should read because let's face it, these two series are more complex than 99% of any books I read), and like any other pretentious middle schooler, have kept it latched in my brain until a moment like this has arrived
**On that note, I highly highly recommend The Infernal Devices series, which contains the excellent quote "We live and breathe words" (It also helps that the main character and her love interest are both obsessed with books.) And no, I'm not over Clockwork Princess. But I do have a copy of the first book to lend if anyone wants to read it.

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