Because We Are Writers.

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Its self explanatory, I had the urgency to identify what it was, well what it is for me, what that feeling might be for you guys, is it the same? I did it today, its incredibly rough, but help me where I need it, please.
oh and I know its awful to start a sentence with a conjunction, but 'We Are Writers' sounded kinda monumental, like it should be next to "THIS IS SPARTA!" but its not as courageous as that :)

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It’s the feeling. It’s the impulse, the purge. It’s what we do because it’s who we are.
It’s the clicking of joints in our fingers as we mercilessly strangle our pens or jab our fingers into the keyboard, to get it before its gone, those fleeting moments that you know deserve to be recorded somewhere, deserve to be put into the equation of words that best convey how you felt at that exact moment. It’s the urgency.
It’s the comfort. The characters that you spit out and hate, and the ones that will find you and annoy you until you put them somewhere, create somewhere for them to belong. The outlines that beg to be filled in. The pieces that don’t fit in anywhere, because even when you don’t fit in anywhere, you can make them fit.
Its blasting that song that you reach to set louder, but is already at its loudest and you’ll feel like your ears will start bleeding at any moment but its ok, because it’s helping. It’s aiding your cause. It’s the river from your ears to your eyes to the words you’re setting into history.
It’s the silence. The rare silence that scares you sometimes. Neutral. Stagnant. You sit and listen. You wait. You may not realize it but you’ve started a journey into the very thing that will get you anywhere in this world we find so difficult to interpret (but enjoy trying anyway) – yourself.
It’s the freedom; the freedom to do as we please, how we please, when we please, where we please. To create whatever we want. The freedom to hate it or love it. Creation, desecration formed in the nerves that link our brains to our fingers, the formation of worlds that haven’t even been thought of yet by anyone but you. You have made it all and it belongs to you.
It’s the devouring of time, because life is in time, and time devours all and you’ll soon realise that this is your life. When you disappear to the far corners of your space and return, you notice that you’ve been through a hundred years worth of travelling, creating and meeting new people, loving your people, hating your people and in essence, loving and hating yourself.
It’s the way you bustle to scribble, type, vomit it all out. How your day will start with the sun filling you up, and you taking your fill and developing it all until your sacrificing slave self feels completely cathartic. And when you’re done the stars will be there to replenish you. This is the best therapy you’ve ever had.
It’s who we are. It’s what we do. Because we are writers.
"Dad, I'm hungry."
Hello hungry!
"Dad! I'm serious."
I thought you were hungry?
"Are you kidding me?"
No. I'm dad.




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OOWORDS.

Nah, seriously. Me be Ninj, your reviewer for today.

First, I want to say how much I loved the wordiness. Sometimes people do it and don't pull it off, but with this, it was like jumping in and chomping on every word. (That didn't make sense. Eeh.)

I caught a few grammar mistakes:

to get it before its gone


It's, not its.

you’ll feel like your ears will start bleeding at any moment but its ok


You'll is future tense, and most of this is in present tense. It's again, and if you're going to lower case "ok" put "okay" instead. If you feel like typing two letters, make them both uppercase.

The pieces that don’t fit in anywhere, because even when you don’t fit in anywhere, you can make them fit.


That confuses me greatly. I know why it does, too, but when I try to explain it, that makes me confused. Eeh.

Overall, this was so cool! I agree with pretty much all of it, because I am, well, a writer. Words make me happy. This had flow I didn't expect it to have. On that note, do try to slow it down. Lots of words can be great, but you don't want to drown the reader. Commas are quite nice when placed properly. Keep your tenses straight and all that good stuff. That's really all I can offer. This was fantastic.

Good luck with future works and keep writing!

~NCM~
hey, Jude, don't make it bad
take a sad song and make it better
remember to let it into your heart
then you can start
to make it better.

~make books, not war~

"Not vampires, fish from space."




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Thanks for your review! Ill definitely go back and fix the points pointed out! :)
"Dad, I'm hungry."
Hello hungry!
"Dad! I'm serious."
I thought you were hungry?
"Are you kidding me?"
No. I'm dad.




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Hello there. :)

I just found one nitpick, and here it is.
And when you’re done comma, the stars will be there to replenish you.

This is the best therapy you’ve ever had.

I liked this bit. It's totally true, how writing is a therapy. Well at least for me... ;) Whenever I'm sad, angry, anxious or I have something on my mind, I write. And somehow, after an hour or two, I'm all right. :)

I liked this piece, since we can pretty much all relate to it, one way or another, with us being on a writers site and all. ;) It's short but sweet. The only thing is that it's only for writers, since the others probably wouldn't understand it, or think you were actually kidding/ being overly dramatic.

All in all, it was good. Great job!

-Other One
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
— Sylvia Plath