So, I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately. These questions revolve around my personal life and my writing. For some reasons, some people believe I’m mysterious, while in the actual sense, I’m quite the opposite. I’m an open book. You just have to look in the right direction. While I can’t tell you anything about my personal life that I would have problems with if it somehow became a public knowledge (for someone I don’t completely trust, anyway), I’ll try to answer some questions related to writing. So here we go:
When did I start writing?
Honestly, I have no idea. I scribbled a lot of nonsense in preschool and high school, but I became aware of my writing in 2016. No, I didn’t start writing immediately I popped out of my Mama’s womb, as some people would say. I learned it overtime. Online creative writing classes, talks, seminars, etcetera. But I loved it or I would have stopped. The stress, meeting deadlines, worrying if your writing makes sense, going blank for days, having an idea sitting in your head without making a head or tail of it. It’s not funny. Writing is serious business. But what can I say? I love it. I always say, writing is like breathing, for me anyway. I can’t do without it no matter how much I hate it sometimes. Ask me why I chose writing and I would only stare at you because I have no frigging idea. I’m probably not in my right mind or I wouldn’t go for it. Some things choose us. We just can’t escape.
What inspires me?
I have to think long and hard for this one. I would say nature, people, experiences (mine and others) but it goes beyond that. I can’t explain it. Sometimes I have no inspiration at all but I still write. And those ones I write without thinking too much are usually the best ones. So the answer is no idea. Of course I might watch a movie and be prompted to write something with the plot or with one of the characters, even a phrase but it’s deeper than that. Is writing spiritual? I have no idea. Those thoughts come when they want and the way they want. I might wake in the morning with a story in my head and it’ll nag me the whole day of I ignore it. The nagging part isn’t very pretty, actually. Don’t worry, I’m still sane. The inspiration isn’t always there. It’s like something you’re born with. You can do it anytime, and when you ignore, it keeps calling you till you answer.
Why do I write the way I do?
Someone once asked me if my writings are from things I’ve seen or experiences I’ve had, if I’ve lived so much, so deeply. I had no answer to that. At some point I got worried. I wasn’t sure if it was okay anymore. My writings, a bigger percentage of them take the dark turn. Things some writers are afraid to explore. I asked some writer friends of mine and they told me it was okay. Maybe it’s me channeling all the bad energies. Maybe my previous life wasn’t a very good one, if something like that exists anyway. I just write as it comes. No idea why it comes the way it does. All I can say is that I’m happy the messages get passed across. That’s the important thing.
So there. Three questions today, all answered, I hope.
Tell me your thoughts.
oh i so agree!!! :)
writing is so special... i love creating worlds with words!!! you can DO ANYTHING there :)
ANYTHING AT ALL! only limited by imagination :)
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