ext_11454 ([identity profile] crossoverman.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liz_marcs 2008-01-20 11:08 pm (UTC)

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.

To be clear, I was using the collective "you" rather than the specific you. You're right, I have no idea what elements are crucial to [livejournal.com profile] elfwreck's psyche.

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?

Now that's an interesting argument. And for me it's all about the story I want to tell. If it feels like a short story I write that. If it feels like a poem, I write a poem. If it feels like a stage play, I write a play.

I understand that some writers have their preference of medium. And a preference for genre. And their own style.

I personally don't understand the pull to writing fan fic over original fic, but I support your right to write it. However, it doesn't compare to centuries of persecution of homosexuals nor the lengthy battle for same-sex marriage.

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