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Why to write
Mar. 25th, 2007 06:20 amI've started re-reading the Vorkosigan books. So far I've read Cordelia's Honour, The Warrior's Apprentice, and the first story in Borders of Infinity.
I've also been watching DS9, with all those stories about Jake deciding to be a writer. That kind of story rarely works for me, writers writing about how important it is to be a writer, it's a bit tail eating. Yet I can look back at a bunch of stories and pick out specific ways they helped make my life. And I can look at characters like Sarah Jane or Lois Lane (hey, rhyme!) and how cool it is they have adventures and write about them and that seems important too.
I've also been thinking about what to do with my life. Because often it feels like I haven't done *anything*. Except there were a bunch of years in there, and actually quite a long accumulation of education, and I'd never look at someone else doing all this and say they hadn't done anything so that's just the little voice at the back of my head again, the one that sounds like Dad when he looked at my GCSE results ("You got a B?")
ANYways
There's keywords. Duty, Honour, Service. And while it is immediately obvious how a military career can fulfill those, and with a bit of thought obvious how an assortment of religious callings fit, the whole thing I'm doing right now with studying Lit and not-actually-writing is... not so very clear.
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Basically: Useful and valuable = stories, as well as a bunch of other things.
If I can write stories that is useful and valuable.
And figuring out how and why they are useful and valuable is pretty nifty too.
... on around four in the morning these things do not seem so very obvious to me. So I write them down with Logic. Maybe later I can write them down with Feeling and make a story of it too.
I've also been watching DS9, with all those stories about Jake deciding to be a writer. That kind of story rarely works for me, writers writing about how important it is to be a writer, it's a bit tail eating. Yet I can look back at a bunch of stories and pick out specific ways they helped make my life. And I can look at characters like Sarah Jane or Lois Lane (hey, rhyme!) and how cool it is they have adventures and write about them and that seems important too.
I've also been thinking about what to do with my life. Because often it feels like I haven't done *anything*. Except there were a bunch of years in there, and actually quite a long accumulation of education, and I'd never look at someone else doing all this and say they hadn't done anything so that's just the little voice at the back of my head again, the one that sounds like Dad when he looked at my GCSE results ("You got a B?")
ANYways
There's keywords. Duty, Honour, Service. And while it is immediately obvious how a military career can fulfill those, and with a bit of thought obvious how an assortment of religious callings fit, the whole thing I'm doing right now with studying Lit and not-actually-writing is... not so very clear.
( Read more... )
Basically: Useful and valuable = stories, as well as a bunch of other things.
If I can write stories that is useful and valuable.
And figuring out how and why they are useful and valuable is pretty nifty too.
... on around four in the morning these things do not seem so very obvious to me. So I write them down with Logic. Maybe later I can write them down with Feeling and make a story of it too.