Here it is: stratamat. I have actually been posting there for a while now, and just have not gotten around to posting here that I moved. Sorry. Anyways, that is where I can be found.

I feel that, to be a writer, you write what comes to you. I don't mean that in the sense that that's what you have to do, but in the sense that you simply do it. When I write a story, it is never what I want, nor what I do not want. It is simply what comes. Characters can die, pain can be inflicted and suffered tremendously, or there can be a fairytale ending. In every sense, it just comes. It flows. It isn't about what you want, or don't want, I believe. I think it's more about what you feel has to be said, whether through gracious metaphors, vivid imagery, fancy words....

Of course, you could still write a story about what you want, but wouldn't that have too many green lights? Go, go, go. No tragedy, or, the opposite: all tragedy. You could write about what you don't want, and it's still the same. There has to be some sort of balance, doesn't there?

I guess that's why I try to stop myself when attempting to force myself to write. If I forced myself, then it would all be jumbled, and without true meaning, because I didn't need to write it. Maybe, though, after forcing myself to write to a certain point, it all came to me in a rush, and I began to have to write it then. I don't know. Wouldn't I have to re-write the beginning, though? Forced writing does seem a lot different than writing that flows from you.

If you request ideas for your story from readers, and have your readers determine the plot for you, what in the story is really yours? The way it's expressed, of course, but every writer has to think of things themselves. I personally do enjoy going over a story with someone, but we don't talk about the story from event to event to event. We discuss the major points, emotions, and actions that the story will express.

To be a writer, I feel that there are some things that you have to write. Your writing is an expression of you, either way you put it or take it. You want to write about someone else's mind, and really write the story in the view of another person, it's like a frame. You, the writer, are the frame, and the person whose mind you are attempting to simulate within your story is the picture underneath the glass. The whole object is your story. When you try to express someone else, you always throw pieces of you in, whether you intend to or not.

That's my opinion, anyways.

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kuseni agete no korera BOISU
gyaagyaa

korera ude no hikitsuri o
yoroshii watashi dakikakaeru anatatachi
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dakikakaeru anatatachi
zokkon
o ai

dokoka

izure yoroshii watashi shinjiru
o ai

korera gyaagyaa
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( 日本および英国翻訳/Japanese Characters and English Translation )