Michy
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What Motivates You to Write?
My blog posts here:
http://accentuateservices.com/blog/2010/01/22/abna-and-what-motivat...
Talks about what motivates me to write. I don't mean so much what inspires you or where you get ideas from or whatever - but more, what is it,
specifically, that motivates you to write?
I'd love an answer either on my blog, here, or preferably on your own blog and then you can comment on mine and link back to your blog post (which
will help get you some page view love on your blog)....
What motivates you to write?
Love and stuff,
Michy
~~Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations~~
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." James R. Cook
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Skwerly
Literary Master
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Money! Fame! Fortune! Fast cars! Booze! Voluptuous women who like cocaine! Wild sex on a bear rug in front of a burning fire in a cabin I paid way
too much for!
Oh wait. That was why I liked playing gigs with my band. Never mind. 
Really, I write because I would love to realize my dream of being a novelist, pounding away at the keys in the loft of a cute little house with a view
of the forest somewhere. THAT keeps me going. THAT keeps me excited. THAT keeps me writing. Of course, getting paid SOMEthing for being a novelist
is intrinsic to the situation, but I have no desire to be rich. 40K a year would do me just fine, thank you. 
I seemed to be looking down from an immense height upon a twilit grotto, knee-deep with filth, where a white-bearded daemon swineherd drove about
with his staff a flock of fungous, flabby beasts whose appearance filled me with unutterable loathing.
My AC page:
Derek's Junk
My Horror Writing Forum: http://writersofhorror.myfreeforum.org/index.php
I **love** creepy trees!
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Theresa
Accentuate Writer!
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What keeps me going on ... really, the hope to see my dream come true. To be able to live off my writing, to give my readers something with my
stories.
Writing for me is a passion.
Love,
Theresa
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Michy
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Derek, there was a time when I told myself if I could write and sell one novel per year, that earned me about 60k per year, along with the other stuff
I do, I'd be a very happy woman.
I'm still holding out for a five figure plus advance though...
But it's still not about fame and fortune to me.
Love and stuff,
Michy
~~Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations~~
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." James R. Cook
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aquablue
Accentuate Writer!
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Location: Miami, Florida
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What motivates me is simple: connect with the reader. If a reader(s) gets me via my writing, all else will fall into place. I know (in my heart) that
I can connect with readers. I have to polish my mechanics among other things before writing a worthy (enough) project.
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boatkicker
Accentuate Writer!
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Registered: 6/27/2009
Location: Dennis, Massachusetts!
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Mood: sick of the hiccups!
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Nothing else fulfills my desire to create. I draw, I sing, I cook, I build things with wood scraps, I create beaded jewelry, I play a lot with
photoshop. But only writing makes me feel like I've made something worth making.
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Writercat59
Member Writer
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Registered: 3/22/2009
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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I'm like Erin and need to be creative every day or I quickly feel robotic and drudgelike, only enduring life.
I draw, do desktop publishing, I play flute and sing in a choir which are all great things but the thing that connects me most to my soul is writing.
I find I need deadlines to keep me writing as the other demands of life are always there knocking on my door trying to interrupt. Taking courses,
entering contests, going to writing events, and joining forums like this one really help keep me motivated to keep writing.
Goals for 2010
Submit more writing, support other writers on our writing journeys, enjoy the process and worry less about rejections which is all part of the fun.
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Ditchdoctor
Accentuate Writer!
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I started telling stories on forums and people enjoyed them. At first they were true paramedic calls that touched my heart. People kept commenting on
how they enjoyed reading what I wrote but I didn't have the confidence because I never finished the tenth grade. After my father died we were
destitute so I had to quit school and go to work.
I began writing Vengeance- A Pirates Tale about a year ago. People were enjoying it so much I made a private forum and allowed a few people to follow
it as it went. All of them commented that it was the highlight of their day to check in daily to read the updates, they really got attached to the
characters.
Sure, I'd love to be paid for writing, but just the fantasy of walking by a book store and seeing my work in the window or on the shelves motivates
me. I want this worse than I wanted that red Paramedic patch on my shoulder so long ago. To have people enjoy a flight of fantasy and get absorbed in
a story that you wrote is intriguing.
Don't let fear and common sense stand in your way.
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rudy2
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Wow, I just realized something. Thanks for posting athat link, Michy. Made me realize, something. I always wrote as a kid. A story came to mind one
day when I was in my 20's, and I started writing again. Took me years, but I finished that book.
After that, I tried to learn about how to write. *They* said this, *they* said that. I thought I was supposed to learn all this stuff, so I tried, and
I did learn a lot, I learned how to write short stories, flash, nonfiction, all that stuff.
But like you, so much of what I started, I never finished.
Isn't that odd, the first book I ever started back when I didn't know jack, that's the one I finished?
Why?
Because I was motivated by the story. By the creative process. By the sheer fun of it all. It was never about thinking the thing was great, or that it
was gonna get published, or that anyone else was even going to read the thing. I did it for me.
And that totally rocked.
Wow.
That is the cool thing about these prompts you know, when you learn something about yourself. Keep 'em coming!
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LittleCricket
Accentuate Writer!
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Very late =_=
But still. Not too interested contest wise, but wanted to really nail this down.
Why Do I Write?
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JimSimons
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I did not consider myself as a good writer way back then. I am also afraid of letting my mind speak verbally so I went through just writing it out.
But then, when people reads through my composition and appreciates it, I feel the urge to write more... and that what motivates me.
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.” - Virginia
Woolf
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Dan_Hensley
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In the end of all my life efforts, I keep being turned back to my writing and communication skills. I have been repeatedly lauded positively for my
writing by many people behind closed doors.
It's my gift and my passion, my compelling obsession to communicate with the world at all times of the day and night, to share my worldview and
experiment with different ways to bring communication across. Since I was young, I have always had deep thoughts, and I mean I'm always thinking about
something that is important in life.
I'm always thinking about the world outside of my own life as well, and how that plays into what happens in the world vs. how that impacts
relationships when it comes right down to being real.
I sometimes have thoughts that are so significant that communicating it defies my own ability. It therefore, gets stuck in my head and sometimes my
head is so cluttered with ideas and thoughts that I have to "empty the garbage bin" if you get what I mean.
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justkat73
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Dan I completely get what you mean. In fact, i had to take a personality test when I was 12. They told me that I thought like a 36 year old and that I
would always think that far ahead of my years. I literally lay awake at night thinking about world issues, my son and a variety of other things that
are often difficult to express. it can be overwhelming at times.
Recently I met a man who cannot read and when I heard that, it hit me very hard. I literally cannot imagine life without written words. In my
childhood, it was writing and reading that saved the remnants of my sanity.
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Dan_Hensley
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Communicating indeed is a soul saver, and good for one's mental health! It's a commonality between you and I when it comes to these darned personality
tests.
Long story short, my teachers and the school district were convinced that I was both mentally ill in the high functioning range and also a threat
because I was reading at grades much higher than my own when I entered Kindergarten, and each year my reading, spelling, comprehension, and writing
scores were many grades higher than what they were used to seeing.
They saw that, like you, I was many years ahead of my own age and labeled that as something dangerous instead of encouraging me forward. I was
seriously bullied for it by other students & told that it was my fault because of "the way I act", lol.
I told them that I can't help it if I have a dedicated family who teaches me well at home and works hard with me. They then labeled me with "placing
myself as an equal with others" and commented on how disturbing that is.
That was the 80's for ya though! It was us young people vs. adults who were overly opinionated to the point of overstepping their places in their
positions so horribly that they often violated the rights and boundaries of others and then when they got called on it with the evidence to back it
all up, they side stepped it all with clever arguments which were nothing more than excuses to pardon themselves from their actions without facing
responsibility for any of it.
Had I been a young person in these days, I would have been placed in an advanced school where I would be allowed to pursue my full potential. Back in
the 80's, intelligent kids were labeled as "inappropriate" and all sorts of other things.
I have to say I'm proud of my Daughter for picking up my love of learning, reading, and writing. I have always told her that if ever she finds herself
struggling to be accepted by society for her smarts that the one thing people can never take from her is her spirit and her ability to self-educate. I
can't stress that enough!
Not everyone is going to have the college experience, even if they have high grades and scholarships. Educate yourselves people! Read, question
everything, take the time to ponder and listen, think alot, dream, and never give up your spirit!
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Gothic Vampiress
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Music, going outside and go looking for things, places, people, etc that will inspire me to write again.
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LennonMcCartney
Member Writer
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i write because it is fun =)
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raian76
Superlative Writer
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I'm creative. I need to create. I'm a painter, photographer, writer. I can do just about anything I set my mind to do.
When it comes to writing I think the main thing is to be able to make a difference in just one person's life. I always wanted to be able to somehow
help someone with something thru my writing. I've been blessed to know that I have accomplished that goal. With my first book, a young woman began
writing to me. She is in a wheelchair, and she so much loved my book and the Great Dane in my book that she got into Great Danes.
She recently told me that I was responsible for giving her 20 years of dreams.
To me, that is worth more than any amount of money.
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