So I get the idea you can be inspired to write fan fic - but I kind of balk at the idea that this is as intrinsic to you as my sexuality is to me.
A smaller part of the persona, but just as intrinsic. Couldn't remove it without destroying me-as-a-person.
I politely submit (as politely as you can imagine me being, at this point of the discussion) that you aren't able to judge what elements of my psyche are crucial to my identity.
The drive to write maybe.
Do you think the "drive to write" is intrinsic, but "the drive to write poetry" or "the drive to write essays" or "the drive to write plays" are separable from that, and the drive can be redirected to a different format if the main one isn't available or acceptable? (This is a serious question. I see the drive to write fanfic as no different from the drive to write songs... writing software documentation will not fulfill the drive.)
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A smaller part of the persona, but just as intrinsic. Couldn't remove it without destroying me-as-a-person.
I politely submit (as politely as you can imagine me being, at this point of the discussion) that you aren't able to judge what elements of my psyche are crucial to my identity.
The drive to write maybe.
Do you think the "drive to write" is intrinsic, but "the drive to write poetry" or "the drive to write essays" or "the drive to write plays" are separable from that, and the drive can be redirected to a different format if the main one isn't available or acceptable? (This is a serious question. I see the drive to write fanfic as no different from the drive to write songs... writing software documentation will not fulfill the drive.)