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Writing
Writing is something that gives you a chance to share your ideas. They can be stupid or silly or smart. Or creative.
I started writing when I was four, about little boys in restaurants and fantasy fairylands-things almost everybody has read about before. My mom helped me hold the pencil, which was ridiculously brobdingnagian to a midget of my puny size.
Now I still like to write fantasy stories, but with strong women characters and complex plots; with antagonists who are clever and cunning and prove worthy adversaries to the heroes of the story. I like writing about these things because they are both more interesting to read about and write; they are more unique and give me the opportunity to really share my ideas in an interesting setting.
To a four-year-old, words appearing on previously blank paper, words simply flowing out from a pencil, was magic. It still is magic to me sometimes, when I tilt my head and look at my notebook or my computer sideways, to see those words, appearing on paper or my laptop browser.
The mini-movie inside my head that I can enjoy watching while I write is also rather magical. With an infinite number of screens through which I can watch my characters, I am the omniscient narrator. Only too bad I'm not omnipotent…my characters rebel only too often.
I'm of the opinion writing gives you free rein to really express your ideas. You can create fantasy fairylands or science fiction planets; you can complain about unfair things under the cover of a story, making yourself the martyr; you can make fun of the people you hate and insert and exaggerate your own personal experiences; you can do whatever you want in the world of writing. You can make your archenemy the corpulent slug or the evil villain; you can make best friend the protagonist. I believe that everybody should experience the joy of writing; writing gives you the power to do whatever you want, wherever, whenever, and however.
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