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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 3:38 am
(October 17, 2016 at 3:34 am)Bella Morte Wrote: What age were you when you first started to get into writing?
I was a teenager, I cannot remember my precise age.
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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 3:39 am
(October 17, 2016 at 3:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm unsure how "principles" automatically become "bullshit". Care to expand upon that connection?
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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 3:39 am
(October 17, 2016 at 3:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm unsure how "principles" automatically become "bullshit". Care to expand upon that connection?
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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 3:50 am
(October 17, 2016 at 3:48 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wasn't asking about rules others follow. I was asking if you had three principles you follow.
There's a bit of a difference. You could have, you konw, stumbled across them yourself?
I write.
There are no principles, so far as I know.
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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 4:26 am
Okay. Nothing you as a writer think important to the craft?
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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 4:33 am
(October 17, 2016 at 4:26 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Okay. Nothing you as a writer think important to the craft?
What I have to offer to the craft is something I have always offered.
I do not write the characters so much as they write themselves; I have learned that the character takes hold and I no longer have control.
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RE: Ask a writer.
October 17, 2016 at 4:35 am
Well, yeah, we all do that.