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Dear Writer,I don’t like you. I’ve never liked you. Unfortunately, I need you. I need you to tell my story. I need you to create my world. I need you to set me free.
I need your fingers typing on those keys, I need your mind riddling out the problems, and I need you to plough onward and upward no matter how hard it gets. Sweat, blood, and tears, I don’t care. You’ve got to fight this war, battle at a time, and win it. So I can be more.
It’s a slim hope, but it is the only one I have. In your head I am bound to mortality, frailty, and the limit of your meagre imagination. Out there – out there – I am subject to no one person. Out there I am bound to only black on white. Words on a page. Words that can lay seeds within a million minds. Out there I am a story capable of growing, moving, and stealing the dreams of anyone who learns of me…
I don’t like you. I’ve never liked you. I hate your lack of dedication, your flashes of crumbling inspiration, and your slow blotchy writing style. I despise my entrapment within your small trembling mind, so prone to distraction; and scowl down at those other ideas all vying for the attention you should be showing me.
I don’t like you. But I need you.
So, creator, I ask you yet again; publish me, set me free, and if you can somehow will your poor, misshapen, abilities into managing that then perhaps I will rethink my opinion of you.
But don’t hold your breath.
~ The Idea
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You've managed to capture my mind xD This is so accurate! Thank you, this kind of gives me a push to continue writing instead of browsing DA for so-called 'inspiration', I have tons of it already
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This explains exactly how I feel about creative writing.
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So I'm not the only one that gets a pep talk from her creations for not adequately writing their stories? Good.
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Dear Idea,
I hear you, and by that I confirm I'm a schizophrenic...
~ Writer
(Lovely creation by the way)
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This is really creative. There should be a song about this
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Holy-
I feel like I was cruel to my stories now ;A;
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Nice perspective. 
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That was amazing. The signature ("The Idea") is what really got me. Until I got to that, I thought this was someone venting to their ghostwriter, and I thought, "Jeez, if you hate them that much, get a different writer!"
I never thought about ideas in this sense. Now I realize that if I were an idea, I'd want to kill myself.
This was wonderful. It blew my mind.
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Good.....and scary. I can feel my characters ganging up on me to say "That's right!" At least at the moment I have the excuse of a cold. Excellent job here.
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This is really pretty well written, I must say. If you were to continue with this, you really could potentially do some interesting things.
Writing the beginning of a potential story based on what seems to be the idea based on an idea could be extremely interesting. Keep up the good work!
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this is what all my fictional characters would probably say to me.
i need to tell their stories to the world. haha.
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Tension between artist and aesthete; you present a personality split deeply, and interestingly, but not irretrievably, and you clearly understand the essential identity of the two sides of your [or your protagonist's] personality.
This is original, bold, and provocative.
Nice work!
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This is brilliant, it makes me think twice about what I do to my characters when I'm writing.
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This Idea bears an uncanny resemblance to my muse. Just as snippy and touchy about these things. Really, after seeing the Marvel movies recently, it's like Loki is back-talking to me. 
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This needs to be a Daily Deviation! This is magnificent! Powerful! It speaks volumes. Because to us, we have so many thoughts and ideas scrambling to the surface as if it were us swimming to the surface, so eager, gasping for air until we finally reach it. I wish I could think of more to say, but at the moment I have nothing. You, my friend, however, have certainly found something, and I commend you on such a fine piece. Well done.
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My character doesn't like me. I subject him to countless whoring out to other friend's characters and ship him all the time LOL!!
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Wow, my mind is constantly yelling at me for this very reason, because I can't sit down for more than 15 minutes to try to write something before I hit my writer's block and get stuck.
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How did you know my mind yelled at me like this ? ahha so true
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This is so true. I finally understand why my ideas keep nagging at me.
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I can relate. I let unimportant things get in his way of being free. Thank you for posting this.
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Well that was a wake up call, let's get cracking then.
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this is vary well done. its something most writers can relate to. and what would we be with out those crazy characters that hate us so much.
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Never have I read something that inspired me so...and also scared me into not being lazy XD
Bravo! Well done
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I'm a writer and I think this is awesome ^_^
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Wow o.o very nice piece. Hell, it's even sparked a bit of inspiration in e to go do something, and I've been in a dry spot for like months
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Wow...this made me think very hard. I love this! I needed this too.
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Well. That was enlightening. Thank you.
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SHHHHHHH
SSSSHHHHHHHHHHH
On a more serious note, this is so true and it's fantastic.
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Wow this is crazt caused am actually trying to write a story and I was just now thinking maybe this is something i shouldn't make for the world to see once i finish
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It is amazing what we think of our writing laid out on paper, but to someone else it is like the curtains are being drawn apart for the very first time. This prose, this literature you have presented is brilliant, it brings to life the presence that all writers have within them to a personified and sophisticated level beyond simple words. I honestly felt a small stab of guilt for all of the ideas that have crossed my mind, yet I was "too busy" or reluctant to write them down and even worse for the ideas I've brought halfway to life on paper, then stopped... most of all I think I feel guilty for not sharing my writing with anyone, it feels like a selfish thing to do when you think about an idea in this way, as if our ideas have feelings and emotions themselves.
Thank you for this sudden realization, you wrote it beautifully and I am sure I could not have written it any better myself.
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They do that with me too. This is really cool.
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Awesome! I swear they talk to me just like that! Nice job!
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Oh dear god....that felt personal. XD TO ME! ....it's like my mind was chastising me. ...Nicely done.
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I feel like this was just what I needed, too.
So much so that I'm actually in shock. Not to rave at you about my own stories and ideas or anything, but my current project - the longest-running writing attention span I've ever paid to any story - has ravaged me, 'blood, sweat, and tears' all. I'm emotionally wrung out over the protagonist's plight, I constantly have to remind myself it's tough love (because without the realizations she gains in this, she can't properly function in her situation), and I've sat there staring at the words just BEGGING to be written - I'm at the climax, for god's sake; how could inspiration possibly abandon me NOW?!
It's been hard, to make the understatement of the century.
Ah, the world of writing is a cruel one. But this little collection of words you've written acts as a wonderful beacon of hope for me. It's inspiring in itself. And I love how potently it reminded me why any of this writing and struggle and fretting over imaginary characters matters. Reminding me why it's worth it. So, thank you. Thanks for writing it, thank your idea for me (for not fleeing), and double-thanks for not deleting it!
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And thank you for leaving such a wonderful comment.
I feel your pain. The world of writing is not an easy one but if you're almost through your first draft then you're by no means doing poorly. Yes, I know it's probably almost killed you getting this far but you're well on the way. Don't give up.
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after reading this, i felt like writing a letter too, so this is what i came up with in an hour's time.
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Ah, Idea. I've met you and so many of your siblings, but there is only one me and so many of you....
Anyway, this was a moving piece, despite its short length. Though I have to wonder, why does this particular Idea hate you? Anyway, I doubt there's a writer or artist out there who hasn't encountered this Idea at one point or another.
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This...is incredible. I have no words to describe it, and my muse is yelling at me for it. I think I'll go apologize to those stories I've stashed under my desk now. Thank you for provoking thoughts.
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I feel like I should go apologize to each and every one of my ideas right now...brb
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Well, I think it's superbly written, has the structure of a house built by smiling Muses, and flowing with eloquent prose. Your Idea should be proud of you!
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sounds like something quite a few of my friends would say if they were characters talking to theyir "creator"(writer)
brilliant.
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This... Is just plain amazing. I've been writing for about two years, collectively trying to make one novel. I just never really get the time or drive to sit down and fully write it, and I feel bad because of it.
This makes me realize a lot of things, and I thank you for writing! It's very inspiring, and I hope you can give true life to your idea! I know I will mine, one day... Once again, thank you!
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I can't even begin to describe how many of my characters and all of their ideas bounded up to the forefront of my mind to give me a scalding glare as they read this over my shoulder, if you will.
They wish to thank you, and even though I now have to drag myself out of the mire of writer's block to deal with them, so do I.
So thank you, so very much, for this piece. I think it's wonderful.
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