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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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I think we're all pretty much like that! Trapped in a world, NEEDING a distraction! Captured it perfectly.
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Nice.
Sometimes I think our characters are spirits of real people who won't find rest until they find a writer to tell their stories. So they find writers and haunt them.
I have several characters haunting me, each demanding I write their story.
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I sure hope my ideas don't hate me. I like the conceot behind this, but it seems a bit....self-depreciating? To give the Idea a voice like this, where it calls your abilities "misshapen" and the like. Well, I'm not sire whether to feel sad or angry that the idea is being so ungrateful. XD
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this is fantastic. thank you for sharing - the idea (no pun was intended) is spot on.
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I am imagining this read in the voices of both my first ever character (male, and very grumpy) and one of my newest muses (masculine female, also very grumpy). It makes for an interesting read because they're in the same story and they both hate each other. xD
This piece, I think, will speak to anyone who has ever had an idea slip through their fingers; be it by procrastination, loss of inspiration, improper timing, or lack of ability, many stories are never fully told. I'm glad you managed to put all of Idea's frustrations into words. :3
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...I feel guilty now all of a sudden. I find this a really well written piece, though!
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the strongest truth is unbidden. it is a cat curled at your heels that darts away at the last second.
you have a nice work here. are you going to write a letter back? it might be a nice companion piece.
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Loved lovedloved it! Are you going to write a response? You know, The Writer to The Idea?
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beautiful, it is just describe how writer usually do... the ideas need to be burst into beautiful pieces of work. it truly inspires me
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Thank you.
In my opinion, every writer or rising writer needs to see this.
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Thank you for reminding me of what I have to do. I have so many ideas floating around in my head and rarely do I pin them down as firmly as I should. I have aome right now that I need to work on, but have otherwise been distracted.
That should soon change.
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Would love to add this to my book when it gets published later this year
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I liked this quite a lot, and it reminds me of my own limitations. I get frustrated frequently with my own limits in the face of my ideas.
I would love to see an artist's (perhaps your) reply in letter form back to the Idea.
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Indeed.
You know you've done your job right when your subconscious mind nags you to write about something.
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Wow, this helped me with something I've been debating over as well. Thank you so much for sharing this with Deviantart! 8D
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i like this it's like your main caracter's talking directly to youand i feel a reflection of my lack of...or rather my procrastinations with my creations written or else(i don't post stories on here) i like it very much thank you
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Every once in a while someone comes along and writes a piece so universally understood, so relevant to artists across all genres, that they can't help but nod their heads at the end of every sentence. Can't tell you how many times I've felt like that; but I've never considered what my 'idea' had to say about it all.
Excellent work. Will remember this the next time I feel like quitting a passion.
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Words can not describe how much a love this. The idea, the execution. It transcends grammar natzis and structural problems because it is absolutely perfectly written. It is exactly how I would be scorned by the many brilliant ideas that bounce around in my head without the ability to put them to paper. I have created entire worlds countless times without the ability to make my clumsy fingers type the beauty to page. And only a writer or an artist can understand that. You are brilliant. Do not doubt yourself.
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Too bad we don't know which Idea this is, among all the rest... Beautiful ^^
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Really like this. Don't think it was poorly written at all.
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Omg, my bf and i love this!! Its so inspirational!!!
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Amazing. It's so powerful. It speaks itself.
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This is something I feel I can relate to, as a writer myself. I've heard the voice of "The Idea", in a myriad of forms, ranging from several different fan fiction ideas, many of which have seen completion, and some of which have only a few chapters.. all the way to the completion of a full length fantasy novel I have been trying for years to publish. This strikes a very strong chord in me, and I am glad you shared it.
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Wow this is gorgeous, I connected with is so intensely.
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Great idea. Execution could be better.
See where a rewrite takes you - you could have something excellent on your hands.
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I love this. Littered with originality and wonder.
Great job!
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An epiphany comes to the mind~
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That's pretty darn awesome right there *A*
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I -
Wow.
That's...I think I'm gonna have to copy that down and put it in like...all of my writing notebooks. This is so inspirational - Thank you for writing this!
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The story and thought of every idea for every artist on Deviantart. I love this.
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Can I say damn straight? Pretty much sums up how I feel, my guilt at not writing the things I have in my head, and the hate my ideas have for me. Although I know I'm well beyond hope for my ideas/characters ever loving me, or even tolerating me. But they don't have a choice, and I know most of them agree with your idea here.
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This is, like, the ultimate motto for deviantart.
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Also, I've recorded it in my writer's notebook, to motivate me in my (not infrequent) times of need.
Don't worry, I gave you full credit for this work of art.
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Perfectly written! I'm pretty sure this is exactly what all of my ideas think of me.
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My ideas never articulate themselves this proficiently. 
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I get the same feeling. One time I was at my friend's house for a sleepover...then BAM! Instant idea. It wouldn't let me sleep until I wrote it down.
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Wow. What an amazing piece. Fantastic work.
I'll tell yah.. with that attitude you just might piss off the gods.. (the writer). But in a twisted way, I think that's what that character wants.. write his end, write his pain, write his adventure.. fkn write something.. I often feel the same when I pray....
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To state it briefly, unique and incredible writing here~
Don't feel obligated to respond xD I just thought I'd say how clever this piece is
(My ideas are never so well-spoken.)
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This so describes me and my ideas 
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