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Scifi and Fantasy Forum: Writer's Discussion: Questions :
Proper Writer...
Proper Writer...We have moved to new forum software and posting here is closed!
"You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?"
My opinion: No. No you cannot.
Mon avis: Oui. On peut. "Madness" in this case is just a metaphor to be saved for the conversational level. Juste mon petit avis. And you know why? Because you can replace "writer" with almost any other reference to people there.
Madness is, of course, necessary for an everyday writer. The greatest writers are not mad; in fact, they are insane.
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
Definitions of madness:
What we often consider to be mad behaviour is only ever an extreme of what we all do, either that or it is behaviour out of context and so seems mad.
WOW! Queen Ehlana! That's a comparison I never saw before!
One thing that's often considered insane is a person who sits and mutters to him/herself. Usually it's because the people need to vocalize their thoughts so that they can harden them in their minds and thus remember them, or to be able to plan things out and catch mistakes in their logic. The reason it's usually a mutter is because they KNOW what they're saying, and don't want to bother other people with their speaking aloud...
It's a fact that if you say something you are far more likely to remember it. So it would go without saying that people who talk to themselves usually have a bad memory or are worried about forgetting something. But I also agree that it can help a person work through their thoughts. I only do it, however, when I am alone.
Yes, I only talk to myself when I'm alone. In English. When I'm at school, I often talk to myself in French... I pretend I'm talking to other people, but really I'm just practicing my French.
I only talk to myself in English. But that could be that I haven't gotten all that far in Spanish yet. We start Quarter two as of tomarrow.
Nah, I've been talking to myself in French since I learned my first few words. I don't think everyone who knows a second language talks to themselves in that language, and learning the language in school seems less reason to do so.
When I learned Spanish, I would think in it almost as much as in English. Then I took Spanish II and the teacher just made us do reports on Spanish-speaking countries. I can barely even speak the language now, though I can still understand just about anyone speaking it.
I'm going to pull a Matrix on you all and ask the question, "How exactly, then, would you define 'sane'?"
"The act of not being insane."
Honey, "sane" is not a noun.
O.K. "The state of one not being insane"
No, not particularly. It still says "the." In case you've lost your roots, "the" is an article, and articles are only applied to nouns.
Grrrr... pickypicky
LOL... You're messing with me now. I'm sure you know that "a" is also an article. **runs away, stumbling through the piney woods**
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