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Published: 2013-02-19 06:34:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 350426; Favourites: 1900; Downloads: 154
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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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Love it. Gives me inspiration even more so to finish the stories I want to write
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deym bruh, this was actually pretty smart, these r the kinda stuff u dont find er'day.. i like da witty way the 'sit ur ez down n write sht' is layed dwn.. nc job yow
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This is honestly garbage and sums up DeviantArt writing. The idea behind this is such a meme its ridiculous. This is what you get when you have some pre-mature teenager who thinks they are creative and tries to come up with the most unique thing they can write about but only dedicate 7 lines to it and put no substance into it whatsoever, because deviant art has the same attention span and eye for detail as a goldfish.
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Back away people because 365th comment is coming to complete the circle! *ehem* this letter caught my eye and made me emotional and motivated. Great work. : )
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This is awesome, and it depicts how I think I would talk to my writer if I were an idea.
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"The story is the boss." And we are terrible employees.
This is the epitome of the relationship between what we create the the creators.
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I think I'll keep this for when my chronic writer's block strikes again. It's inspiring and probably all I'll need to finally post the stories sitting in my sta.sh.
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Great piece of writing. It really describes the struggle a writer gets when they lack the inspiration and desire to write a particular idea.
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I really liked what you have here. I was wondering if you'd give me permission to turn it into audio and put it on youtube. If you are interested please contact my page and we can figure something out from there
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I really like this. It feels like it really is the way our unwritten and unfinished ideas feel.
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Have you guys ever had a character argue with you in your head? Or is that just me and my weirdness?
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Okay good, I was worried there.
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This... this is amazing. I feel like my own ideas and plot bunnies have spoken to me. They're devilish and infuriating little creatures, but I can't let them down...
Thank you for this.
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You have plot bunnies too? OH MY GOODNESS! I have this old drawing that I made in my late-night-ideas book from ages ago, and I thought it was just a random snippet of idea that I had made up on a whim. Are you telling me they exist, that you have them too?!?
This is the picture: [link]
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I've always called them "plot bunnies," because they have a bad habit of multiplying when I'm not looking. 
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Thanks! After I posted that, I went looking for other interpretations, and they're everywhere! The idea must have slipped in unconsciously, because I feel so sure I'd never heard of them before, but if you google it there's an entire list of the different "breeds" of plot bunny. Weird!
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brilliant! I love it 
Well done
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Howdy!
My name is McKinley Wiens, and I am starting up a blog focused on literature and such! I was wondering if I could have your permission to link this post to my blog, possibly accompanied by a comment or two by you? If so, please respond and I'll give you a couple questions I'd love you to answer about the piece for my blog post! If not, that's kool
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Sure. Nothing bad can come from a little extra exposure. Fire away (the questions)!
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Thank ya very kindly! My blog is focused around how literature is related to our lives, and emotions, so...
1. What inspired you to write the piece?
2. What does the piece mean to you?
3. How has literature as a whole, or literature communities on sites such as DevArt, affected your life?
4. Favorite novel? and why?
5. Anything else you feel is relevant, and would like to have included in the post!
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1. There was no inspiration. I was not inspired to write this piece. It just... happened one night before I snapped shut my laptop after a few hours munching out a tricky paragraph. Read into that what you will.
2. This piece represents a community of writers and artists. I know that sounds strange but I wrote this in such a rush, in such a short blurred moment, that I have come to know it after its creation as the most popular thing I have ever posted on DeviantArt. I believed it destined to sink to the bottom of a murky green gallery. Instead... it seems to have ridden an overnight rip tide.
And through it I have found thousands of inspired creators all battling to let their ideas out just as I am. What does it mean to me? It means them, our identical struggles, and the online community we are apart of.
3. The pursuit, creation, and experience of stories is one of my few true passions. Perhaps in the only one.
Literature is merely a medium in which to tell a story. In the same way a book is just ink and paper, or a word a collection of symbols, literature isn't my passion. It's what literature can do, the stories it can tell, which inspire and shape my life; which have driven me to throw myself into such a life.
4. Currently it is 'World War Z' by Max Brooks. Never have I come across such a brilliantly constructed, formatted, or rustically told scare story since Orson Welles historic radio broad cast 'War of the Worlds'.
It's terrifyingly plausible, realistically raw, and it sticks with you for a long time after putting it down. Brilliant.
5. 'Dear Writer' is a short strange thing that I have come to adore not just because of its form and style but because it has proved to be a doorway to a lot of new writers and has perhaps helped a lot of writers.
I still don't know if its good, bad, or the dreaded 'meh' but I am glad I didn't delete it that night before closing my laptop.
Okay, I hope you find what you want in the thick of all that. Thanks.
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This is honestly so beautiful that it's brought to tears to my my eyes. I'll take your cup of tea steeped with improper grammar any day.
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Brilliant girl!
Awesome job!
Thanks 4 sharing!
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Incredibly brilliant ^_^
It really inspires those who want to make a career out of writing
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Never put yourself down or else you will never be free.
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