Day 4 NaBloPoMo at yeah write guest blogger: echoshadow
I have few things I truly care about in life, I can ignore most things that people deem important, I have few friends, fewer enemies, ultimately, my life is sort of bland. I write, first and foremost, for entertainment. It has to be fun, it works off any stress I may acquire during the day, but so does a cup of apple juice, and I’m sure I’d prefer the juice.
I love writing. When I first realized I could read, I was addicted. I read so many books my family stopped buying new ones. I read and read for hours, ignoring TV and chores, though that second sounds more like a symptom of childhood laziness than a love of the written word. I read until I ran out of my books and read my mother’s books, I read until I was all but out of words to read. It was only a matter of time before I began to make words of my own in the hopes of one day providing one tenth the entertainment that I received for someone else. With this goal in mind, I took up the pen name Ace the Jester. As I would be the entertainment, I should be the court jester.
I still use this as the category name for any stories I write on my blog. The name echoshadow is a story for another post, but let’s move on to what I hope to accomplish. As I firmly believe fame and eternal life through my works shall not be accomplished, here is the reason I write:
I know my mind works in strange ways and my thoughts aren’t always in real words, they are more vague concepts. The mere act of putting them down in a written format makes them less fluid and more comprehensible. That is why I’m the madman with a pen because, without a pen, I really would be just a madman. Fortunately, I have one.
Hopefully you understand me because, to me, being a writer means being understood.
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Love what you wrote! Writing = discovery and freedom for me. I don’t always write about deep subject matters but sometimes what I don’t think is anything fabulous ends up getting the most comments on my blog. Go figure. Thanks for this great community. I am loving meeting everyone!
When you don’t think it’s going to be deep you lower the chance of coming across as pretentious, at least that’s what I’ve experienced.
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You touched on the freedom — the no rules — part I love about blogging. It is the space where our creative selves can roam free. It’s up to our inner censor how far we wish to go.
Freedom ans chaos are the same thing.
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Good post! It reminded me of what the author of this book called Journeys Into Emptiness said which is writers and artists are constantly emptying themselves ..freeing themselves so as to invite more things from within.
Sounds like another book to add to my wishlist.
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I agree with you. By writing, we tend to gain an understanding of ourselves, of the thoughts that dwell within us.
I consider myself a madman; good to know there is some one else out there who thinks the very same. Thanks for sharing your story. 🙂
You’re more than welcome, it was totally fun writing this post as before I did, I stared blankly at the webpage for hours thinking to myself, just write it tomorrow, just write it tomorrow.
Love this. Without a way to transpose our thoughts, we’re all mad here. 🙂
Something about this comment reminds me of a cat…
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