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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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[hils.livejournal.com]

OOH! If you like sailing then write a pirate story. I never get tired of reading those.

Personally I don't have any hobbies that justify writing about. In fact writing IS my hobby. So it's love-sick vampires all the way for me

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

pirates... I love pirates. But it'd have to be modern pirates or fantasy-world pirates, because I have no desire to research 19th-century society and speech. So, modern pirates in an alternate universe? I can do that.

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[hils.livejournal.com]

Sounds good!

[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.

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Writing what you know isn't necessarily writing only what you've lived. What you know can translate in different ways. There may be some day when you're seized with the need to write all!sailing!all!the!time! but it may be after it's settled into you and mushed around with your creative processes. It may be just a small piece of some other larger story. Who knows. But I'm all for writing what your head wants to write (check out the recent whineage in my LJ for what my head wants to write vs. what I feel I should be writing).

[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!