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I've been thinking about writing. People always go on about "write what you know" and so forth. My dad has asked me why I don't write about sailing, since it's something I know about and love. I've wondered too, because it's never been something I write about it. The first, and so far only, time was a poem I wrote back in January.

I guess I find it hard to express. Also, the urge just isn't there. I get the desire to write about people, but not about sailing. I suppose there are ways to combine the two... but I've just never had the urge. And I know from experience that I can't just write because I wnat to write something... I have to be inspired first. I'm inspired to go sailing, but not to write about it.

Do other people find it easy to write about their lives & hobbies? Or do they always end up writing about completely different things, like love-sick vampires, interstellar warriors, spies, FBI agents, aliens, and guerilla war soldiers who fight oppressors with human-shaped tanks?

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[caille.livejournal.com]

'shaka, I don't see the problem. You fix up your sailboat so that the cabin, or inside space thingie, whatever it's called in sailorese, you fix it so no light comes in during the day. But then...just after sunset, as the stars are coming out, the cabin door opens. Frolicking ensues.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You fix up your sailboat so that the cabin, or inside space thingie, whatever it's called in sailorese

Cabin. It's a cabin. the outside space where you steer is the cockpit.

hmm... better be a big boat if someone has to stay inside the whole day.