The Word Cloud

Because I've been blessed with very few friends, a job that allows me a normal 9h-5h day job, working mostly from home and because there's never anything good on the tv anyway so might as well do something worthwhile.

And also because I really love to write, to imagine my own stories, to create my characters that nobody else can possibly know before me. Sometimes I think I have no choice but to be a writer because there are so many different ideas that come to me during the night, or at that twilight moment in the morning, that I just have to write them down to make a bit of space in my head. Otherwise imagine all that waste of creative energy ?

Because I've worked for thirty years with a host of lovely people whose voices I want to share with EVERYONE!

All great reasons. It's good to know how others formed their 'habit'.
I just wanted to tell one particular autobiographical nightmare part of our lives. Apparently that story was boring and no-one would care, so scrapped that and re-wrote it with plenty of artistic licence and a few funnies thrown in for good measure. Now is it 'insightful and fun' (but still not up to standard) . So I re-wrote it........Watch this space.

because telling people 'im a writer' means I will never have to admit to people 'im unemployed', which is a likely scenario judging by my university grades...

Having evaded writing for many years, possibly out of fear of being rubbish, circumstance finally backed me into a corner.

Circumstance finally backed me into a corner in a good way, I mean. It was like a sequence of events playing out to open up an inviting path before me [angelic music].

Steve, have you seen and are you walking towards a bright white light? What's it like? Is it bright? Is it white? Is it light? I have to know.

My sequence of events keeps leading me into a basement. Should I be scared?

...Boy it's hot down here.

Hey basements are great for writer's,  just remember to come up for some air from time to time Kim.

Circumstance has a way of putting you on the correct road, your unique road, when you begin to dither. You have to have a little patience and faith in the universe and listen to your instincts.

At the moment i feel I'm being devoured  up by some creativity monster; my head is beginning to explode. I must try to canalise it all . Sleep is becoming a non-existent word in my vocabulary.

No, it's more kind of a pathway vision of the future, with various things along the way-side like designers presenting cover alternatives, shelves with my book on it, agents shaking their heads, publishers laughing in my face, but me happily writing my way down it all the same. Strangely, it is lined with willow trees for some reason...

Also, I am physically in a basement scenario too; for both my writing room and living quarters. I love it down here. Happy as a pig in a pig playpen.

I started to write things when I was about twelve, but I never had the intention of being a writer or trying to write a book, that seemed too far out of my reach. Somehow though, it just seemed to be 'my thing' and over the years I would write more and more, not really knowing why.
I'd like to think today that I maybe for some reason I was meant to travel this writing road...

I feel I didn't have much choice! It's as though writing reached out and grabbed me by the scruff of my neck as soon as I learnt to put words down on paper, and it's never let me go. One morning at primary school we all had to write about what we'd done at the weekend, so I wrote about the walk my family had taken along the sea front and how my mother had tripped over (which I illustrated with a picture of her face-down on the paving stones). She was rather annoyed about it when she saw it on open day, and I couldn't understand why.

I love the idea of 'The Book of Spangles' , Chapter one, Verse six.

Perhaps you could have a word with our vicar about the length of his sermons?

Consider it done, Kim!

It has a great ring to it.

I became a writer because

I always liked the idea of leaving my mark upon this Earth in some way. Either in a big way or just for the future generations of my family. I'm useless at everything else anyway (although I can bake an exceedingly good Bakewell tart ) so might as well try to excel at the thing I enjoy more than anything else.

Circumstances have conspired against me leaving me part-qualified at everything and fully qualified at nothing. I'm a part qualified nurse, pension fund administrator, accountant, lawyer, business administrator, legal cashier and practice manager. People tend to pre-judge the words part-qualified as having ‘given up’ half way through. Nothing could be further from the truth. One qualification (completed) ‘part-qualifies’ me in all but one of these areas.

I suppose, technically, as I'm unpublished but have completed a play, I could be classed as a part-qualified writer too. Argh!

When people ask me what I do, I would love to be able to drop the words 'part' and 'qualified' and just give a title. 'Writer' is going to be it. I'm determined!

Having completed a play is fantastic Kim and don't consider yourself as  'part- qualified writer', or you'll make me very angry and I might turn green.

Remember, an unpublished word clouder is a diamond of tomorrow.

Okay Aiyla. Thanks for that. I wouldn't want you to go all green and Hulkish. (Quite scared now.)

Sometimes I think that I became a writer beacause I didn't have many friends : (
and so had to talk to myself. In fact it's not such a bad thing to be alone and not have someone to talk to. After all, if there was someone always around me whilst I was writing then he/she would be forever interrupting my internal conversations and I'd have to start up again from scratch. Unless, of course, that person happened to be a special person, who was acutely tuned to my mind in such a way that we both knew more or less what each other was thinking and so any new dialogue would simply be a continuation. I may be asking for too much, but I would like to meet someone like that. And if he too was a writer....

Ailya, I'm scanning through the Word Cloud membership as we speak trying to find a possible match for you. I'm very much an 'Emma' character; I like to see people happily paired. Now then, let me see...Oh no, not him...He may be a possible, but he's a little young.
Hmm. I'll get back to you.

Kim

Oh that's ever so nice of you Kim

No, seriously, it's my pleasure. I know have a mission in life.

Well I'll just sit myself down here then Kim, and you can line them up.

I became a writer because I was made redundant and whilst miserable and moping around the house (deliberately not looking for another job) I made the mistake of asking EzBird what I could do. Her words were insightful, beautiful, concise and completely undiplomatic. She said;
"You always live in a fantasy world. Why don't you write about it?"
Bless...

Another important fact, and this is absolutely true; I had a dream, a truly vivid dream, that I remember to this day (two years later) about the excavations of a citadel and the discovery of a live and very angry dragon trapped down there for thousands of years...

I say she was right and that story sounds fantastic. 

I too have wonderful vivid dreams that give me great ideas for my writing.  So have you started this story then?