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[timepiececlock]

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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[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem writing about my hobbies, but then again I am the kind of man who saw a Unicorn when he was 11 years old!

But seriously, I think that illustrates a point, that you can "know" stuff which might not be a regular part of you day to day life. So I shouldn't worry if you never feel inspired to write about it.

next time you write a fanfic, perhaps you try setting a scene on a sailing boat? Like that one from Ghost in the Shell where she goes swiming (only scene on a ship, in a film not about ships, I could think of that I knew you'd also know).

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

next time you write a fanfic, perhaps you try setting a scene on a sailing boat? Like that one from Ghost in the Shell where she goes swiming (only scene on a ship, in a film not about ships, I could think of that I knew you'd also know).

Maybe. But then it might feel like I put it in there just to have it, not because it fit as part of the story. Have to be careful about that.

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[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

That is a danger.

Oh well, go with Hils idea! Every one loves Pirates!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Oh well, go with Hils idea! Every one loves Pirates!

Probably because everyone likes the word swashbuckling. ;)

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[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

And indeed to swash there buckle...

Actually not os much. Bucklers are really stupid looking. And I have never actually seen a swashbickler with a buckler in it. Strange!