I first decided to have my try at writing one lonely
day when I was searching the internet and came across the FanFiction site.
Before then, the creative part of me always jumped
on any opportunity to express itself, be it through art or writing or building
things. But it was when I started reading other stories and thought ‘I could do
that’ did I realize that writing was the way to go.
It wasn't long before I realized that I couldn't just write any old crap. A flame made me realize that I needed to work on my
writing, like keeping the character’s personalities consistent, creating a
believable plot and so on. Even though I loved the stories I was writing – they
were mine and mine alone – I realized that I wanted other people to like them,
too. So I analysed other people’s work, looked up writing websites and books,
and began to get the picture.
As I wrote, I found myself writing about specific
things; interesting as it is, I found myself drawing away from looking at episteme,
as that requires research and a lot of knowledge about the time period in
question. And I’m a lazy person. But I like to challenge different ideologies
of today, like trend setting and morally questionable things, and I also like
to look at the collective unconscious; in other words, our natural reactions to
things.
For me, writing is my collective unconscious,
because if I hadn't discovered it, I don’t know where I’d be in life.
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