Monday 17 March 2014

Why I am a Writer: Applications of My Genius

It's painfully simple, really. I write because I can't don't can't don't draw. I express myself better through words than pictures. I use drawing when I want to make fun of people. (Yes, I'm a bit of a caricaturist.)
Yes, I draw. But I'm more likely to come up with a killer punchline for a cartoon or a caption for a picture than...you know, draw. Not that I don't like drawing. I do. A lot. I just like writing more.
At nights, when I can't won't can't sleep, I'm just there in bed composing poems like hell......I feel like a Mozart, except, y'know, for the early death and being a prodigy. I'm talented--- or so people tell me--- but I don't think I'm a prodigy.
But writing is just... I cant describe it properly. It's like my very own religious experience. When I write, it's almost as if I can see God, like God is writing through me. Don't mean to blaspheme but...maybe that's why I don't write perfect poems in one go. I write, reread, mumble "Aw dammit", edit, reread and discard it in frustration and start over. Then it's lather, rinse and repeat.
And repeat.
And repeat.
AND REPEAT.
It's frustrating as HELL.
Is this what great writers like Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky had to go through to produce masterpieces such as Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina and my favorite, The Brothers Karamazov?

It continues to be simple, but now there's a hint of complexity.
I write because I read.
I'm a bibliophile UNDERSTATEMENT OF ALL TIME I live and breathe books. I eat, sleep and think books. Doesn't matter what type of book it is, I'll read it. It's this that got me to read shit stuff like Fifty Shades of Grey while hating girl porn and fan fiction, both of which it is....
In light of all this (and more but I won't bore you) it means that I write because I'm running out of reading material...
Yes, this happens when one has been reading since the age of one and continues to do so at the ripe old age of 16 years and 4 months. I am more well-read than most people twice my age....
And due to how I know what I like, I write what I like so I can read more of what I like.
Get it?

And.....I write because I need an outlet for these depressing thoughts of mine. Self-explanatory.

Going to class (and gonna write more than notes),
@Jaye_Eccentriq

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