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your take on writers and such
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what makes a writer? a person who publishes a book or a person that just writes or what? is there a difference between an author and a writer? and what makes a person write books?

this isn't about making small talk, i'm in the process of writing my second book and these are the issues & questions addressed in there.


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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we're all writers - in some form or fashion.

authors write published material.

hope that helps :smile:

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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my approach to being a writer is drinking at 10AM in the morning

fuck it, hemmingway did it, right?


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"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."

- Tom Morello

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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Its a fruitless question of semantics. There is no need to distinguish between people who are being published and those who aren't. Between those who write a lot and those who write a little. If somebody writes something for it's own sake they are a writer. Further distinctions are matters of personal ego.


People write books because they feel they have something to say??


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"And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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Anyone who writes is a writer.


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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.  For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.  Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it.

~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

:heartpump:

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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People write books because they feel they have something to say??


so do they do that for the good of other people? like they have something to say that may benefit other people?


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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There is a big difference between writing FACT and FICTION.

I am an author, much less a writer.


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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge.  It is an indellible experience; it is forever known.  I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.

Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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What was your first one?

Anyway, they're cool

I think I have to do a report on them

Maybe i'll be a writer one day


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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What was your first one?

Anyway, they're cool

I think I have to do a report on them

Maybe i'll be a writer one day


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
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Hyper_Panda_GO said:
What was your first one?

Anyway, they're cool

I think I have to do a report on them

Maybe i'll be a writer one day


a collection of short stories.


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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Post your favorite


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
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Hyper_Panda_GO said:
Post your favorite


ah sorry, it's all in estonian.

http://www.myspace.com/koertejumal

my book & books i've translated from english and published are all up there.


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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i am actually what i consider a writer.
i write tons and tons of short stories and have ideas for more, and ideas for books.


i write because i like to. i write things i would want to read about.. for entertainment purposes.

it takes more than just writing to write a book.. personally i think writing a book has to be GOOD writing. not anyone could write a good book.


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: igwna]
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yeah that's also my idea: i write stuff that i would like to read, that would justify the existance of a book.


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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By that definition I too am a writer


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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so do they do that for the good of other people? like they have something to say that may benefit other people?


Some do, some don't, I guess. Many do it out of self-serving vanity. Many do it to clear the silence. Many do it for their own aims. Why does anybody create anything? Not to share it with others or to keep it to oneself...I guess to make our internal thoughts externally tangible?


I write to be creative, to let off creative stream. When I put down a lot in a writing session its a great feeling afterwards. A relief. When I don't write for a long time that energy builds up and it becomes negative


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"And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: badchad]
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There is a big difference between writing FACT and FICTION.


Explain. I disagree. I think there is practically no difference between writing fact or fiction at all. Maybe the mind state of the person doing the writing, but as far as the individual text goes I can see no difference in of itself


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"And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."

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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: DirtMcgirt]
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DirtMcgirt said:
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so do they do that for the good of other people? like they have something to say that may benefit other people?


Why does anybody create anything?


that is what the book is about. i can never say why anyone creates anything, i can only try to explain it myself and i don't think that's egotism.


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: Bridgeburner]
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Not really, everyone has their own thoughts about it, you're just putting in literary form


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Re: your take on writers and such [Re: DirtMcgirt]
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You've said some cool shit in this thread.


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"America: Fuck yeah!" -- Alexthegreat

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”  -- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.

The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. --Salena Zeto (9/23/16)

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