Hello all! It is Wednesday yet again. Not only is it an everyday Wednesday, but the first Wednesday, which means it’s time for my posting for The Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG). I’m pleased to be among those co-hosting this month’s posting. Please visit the pages of my fellow co-hosts–Jemi Fraser, L.G Keltner, TyreanMartinson, and Rachna Chhabria!
This month’s optional question is: Albert Camus once said, “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Flannery O’Conner said, “I write to discover what I know.” Authors across time and distance have had many reasons to write. Why do you write what you write?
I write what I write because the characters and what ifs that pop into my brain to begin the writing process refuse to go away until I write them as they grew. I make decisions about tense and secondary characters to further plot, but the foundation is an non-negotiable part of the idea.
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Time for some news.
Quite the whale tail.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metro-train-whale-tail-sculpture_n_5fa03110c5b6b6b60e92584
I cannot even imagine the edge of the Milky Way. Can you? I love science!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metro-train-whale-tail-sculpture_n_5fa03110c5b6b6b60e925841
I leave you with a song. See you back here in seven.
kimlajevardi 
Thanks for co-hosting this month!
I’m the same. Be it characters, a certain scene or a story idea, once it pops into my head I have to write it. If I’m unable to write it right away, I created a document or folder for it to get to later.
Love Andra Day’s “Rise Up.” Haven’t heard it in a while.
I also create a folder for pieces of story or character I can’t work on yet. I have to promise them I’ll get to them as well. It’s as if my stories and characters are actually alive.
Yep, we have to write, or those characters are going to remain trapped forever. Great answer.
Trapped is definitely the right word. Thanks for dropping by.
I totally get why you write – some stuff in our heads just has to come out! And, to make space for more thoughts and story ideas, the only way to do that is by writing it all down. Not if non-writers understand this, though. 🙂 Thanks for co-hosting this month.
Getting it out not only makes space but temporary sanity.
That news story about the whale tail is stranger than fiction.
Yes, it was.
I visited, but my comment didn’t save. Poo. Thanks for co-hosting.
I think characters in our heads who won’t leave us alone are one of the things that differentiates us as writers. Stubborn little creatures! LOL Thanks for co-hosting.
So stubborn. It was my pleasure.
I love that song! True that sometimes writing doesn’t feel like a choice. Thanks for co-hosting!
I love that song! True that writing sometimes doesn’t feel like a choice. Thanks for co-hosting.
I love that song! I agree, sometimes writing doesn’t feel like a choice. Thanks for co-hosting!
Glad you enjoyed the song. Thanks for posting!
I wish I were more like you and wrote down the stories that persist in my memory. That persistence is usually fleeting and soon passes away if we don’t write something down before it is forgotten. It’s like remembering a dream. Things get lost into the inner recesses of the mind so easily.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
The inner recesses can be tricky for sure.
Yeah, sometimes the only way to get a story out our head is to write it down.
Very true.
Thanks for hosting and the links. 😉
Anna from elements of emaginette
My pleasure. 😊
Thanks for co-hosting today. I hope you’ve enjoyed it!
Thanks, I did.
That’s great that your characters and what if’s won’t be quiet until you write them down. Thanks for co-hosting.
It was my pleasure.
Who knew imaginary friends could be so bossy. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
OMG, Kim. The whale tail story was hysterical! It looks like the whale did better than the train. Thanks for co-hosting today. I hope you’ve had fun. Stay safe!
It is a great story and visual. It was my pleasure to co-host.
I, too, saw the picture and story of the runaway train stopped by a statue whale’s tail. I adore this story start and reason to write: “the foundation is a non-negotiable part of the idea.”
It’s a great story. I like that line too. 😉
I find the characters climbing out of my head onto the page are actual pieces of me, much like the characters in our dreams represent us in some way. Great post and thank you for co-hosting. Happy IWSG Day!
I can see that. Happy IWSG posting day!
Those pesky characters…but thank goodness for them so we can write!
Best and worst visitors ever.
I know exactly what you mean. My characters battered away at my skull until I wrote their story, hoping they’d leave me alone! They didn’t.
Thin line between writing and madness. 😜
Hehee. I suspect if I told anyone other than another writer about the people in my head, yes, they’d suspect madness!
But we’re your people.
Agreed! Those core ideas sink in and refuse to let go!
Tenacious, aren’t they?
I agree, writing is an obsession. Thanks for co-hosting, Kim!
Sometimes a good obsession, sometimes not. 😉
Those pesky characters are everywhere, aren’t they? Glad you’re wrestling their stories onto the page. Thanks for posting the whale tail and train story and for co-hosting today.
Those pesky characters are everywhere, aren’t they? Glad you wrestle their stories onto the page. Great whale tail and train story. Thanks for posting that here and thanks for co-hosting today.
Thank you for popping by today.
Those pesky characters that won’t leave us alone! Oh, yeah. They invade my sleep and won’t shut up until I give in. 🙂 Thanks for sharing the link to the train and the whale’s tail. Amazing. Thanks for co-hosting this month.
Invading sleep is a favorite pastime for unruly characters. 😉
Sometimes it takes months for a story to pop into my brain…LOL.
Thanks for co-hosting!
Time is definitely part of it too.
I saw that story about the whale tail and the train – what a miracle.
Thanks for co-hosting today!
My pleasure, Alex!