Teens Can Write, Too! are back again with another fantastic blog chain! I apologise profusely for not posting this up sooner - my explanation would be very longwinded, though key points of it involve murderous textbooks, a small green rucksack, morning breath and an attempted murder with a pointy implement. Not quite in that order.
Anyway, apologies aside, let us crack on with this month's question:
"Why Do You Write?"
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Would you promise not to laugh,
If I told you right and true
That the reason for my scribbling
Was to bring some joy to you?
If I mentioned my delight
And my satisfaction's glow,
And how making people happy
Really does delight me so?
Or what about the itching,
Somewhere deep inside my brain,
Of the little tiny voices driving
Me halfway insane?
Of the characters who haunt me,
How they whine and plot and scoff.
Somewhere deep inside my brain,
Of the little tiny voices driving
Me halfway insane?
Of the characters who haunt me,
How they whine and plot and scoff.
How they will not even leave me
Even when I kill them off!
I might also mention pushing,
Ideas roundabout
Of seeing how new concepts
Filter in and flatten out.
Ideas roundabout
Of seeing how new concepts
Filter in and flatten out.
Hide the message in the bottle,
Let it float among the ink
Of my stories, and then listening
To what the readers think.
Let it float among the ink
Of my stories, and then listening
To what the readers think.
Of course there's plenty more,
Simple reasons to be told,
Some are hardly worth a nickel,
Others are my hidden gold.
But overall, beside them all,
A feeling that I should,
Simple reasons to be told,
Some are hardly worth a nickel,
Others are my hidden gold.
But overall, beside them all,
A feeling that I should,
Be writing for the joy of it,
For ink is in my blood!
For ink is in my blood!
Can't get enough? Why not check out the other additions to the blog chain, by writers many, varied, and epic!
May 5–http://towerofplot.blogspot.com–The Leaning Tower of Plot
May 6–http://correctingpenswelcome.wordpress.com–Comfy Sweaters, Writing and Fish
May 7–http://cassidymarierizzo.wordpress.com–Cassidy Marie Rizzo
May 8–http://insideliamsbrain.wordpress.com–This Page Intentionally Left Blank
May 9–http://weirdalocity.wordpress.com–You Didn’t Really Need To Know This…
May 10–http://inklinedwriters.blogspot.com–Inklined
May 11–http://thewordasylum.wordpress.com–The Word Asylum
May 12–http://lilyjenness.blogspot.com–Lily’s Notes In The Margins
May 13–http://laughablog.wordpress.com–The Zebra Clan
May 14–http://planetaryelastic.blogspot.com–Tangential Bemusings
May 15–http://realityisimaginary.blogspot.com–Reality Is Imaginary
May 16–http://otherrandomthings.wordpress.com–Dragons, Unicorns And Other Random Things
May 17–http://lonelyrecluse.wordpress.com–The Lonely Recluse
May 18–http://delorfinde.wordpress.com–A Farewell To Sanity
May 19–http://incessantdroningofaboredwriter.wordpress.com–The Incessant Droning Of A Bored Writer
May 20–http://allegradavis.wordpress.com–All I Need Is A Keyboard
May 21–http://teenscanwritetoo.wordpress.com–Teens Can Write Too! (We will be announcing the topic for next month’s chain)
