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Friday's Top Ten

The top ten reasons why writers write:

10. To make a mountain of moolah

  9. To enjoy all the praise and adulation heaped upon them

  8. Nobody told us about critiques and bad reviews

  7. Revenge

  6. It's the only way to make those characters shut up

  5. To share things we believe are important

  4. To find the emotional story behind the story

  3. Because we can

  2. To entertain

And the #1 reason writers write:

  1. Because we can't stop
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Liza said…
Let me know how making that mountain of moola thing goes...
:)
November 18, 2011 at 7:17 AM
Jo said…
Very interested too in the mountain of moolah point! I LOVE the last point and the one about making the characters shut up. Have a great weekend. Greetings. Jo
November 18, 2011 at 7:21 AM
Linda G. said…
LOL! Mountain of moolah? That might keep me giggling all day.;)
November 18, 2011 at 7:39 AM
Joanne said…
I like #4. It's just those emotions behind the story that really bring the story to life on the page.
November 18, 2011 at 7:49 AM
Mason Canyon said…
Maybe #2 covers this but I'd say writers write so we readers can live in the fantasy worlds of beautiful make believe. Have a great Friday.

Mason
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November 18, 2011 at 7:51 AM
Slamdunk said…
Neat list Carol. I am all about your #4--the story behind the story that is often ignored needs a voice.
November 18, 2011 at 8:03 AM
Alex J. Cavanaugh said…
Revenge! I like that one.
November 18, 2011 at 8:25 AM
VR Barkowski said…
Okay, 9 and 10 made me laugh out loud, but the rest? Spot on.

Have a great weekend!
November 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Julie Flanders said…
Haha, #8 made me laugh, I haven't even finished my novel yet and I already worry about bad reviews if I manage to get it published!

Of course I expect the mountains of moolah too LOL. ;)

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!
November 18, 2011 at 8:50 AM
Unknown said…
A great list. #9 is making me laugh (sadly). :)

Have a great weekend!
November 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM
Linda Kage said…
I'm definitely number 1 and number 6!!! Still waiting for number 10, sigh.

My sister wrote a short revenge story once when she was mad a her husband. Wow, do not tick off this lady. The ideas of what she could do to you are just plan scary!!!
November 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM
Emily R. King said…
Sometimes I wish I could stop, then I do and I wonder what's wrong with me, and I write again. It's an ugly, err, I mean beautiful cycle.
November 18, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Theresa Milstein said…
So true! Ah, the voices! And I wholeheartedly agree with #'s 8 and 1.

Happy weekend!
November 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
Liza - Yeah. You, too :)

Jo - Same here.

Linda G - No mountains are in my view :)

Joanne - I agree.

Mason - I love getting lost in a good book.
November 18, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Manzanita said…
Have to see the Friday list. I like them all but my ever present Scorpio rising zeros in on the "revenge". It's not a bad thing for a Scorpio, we can't help it. "Just get even." Ha
And what a better way than to do it in print. :)
November 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
Slamdunk - That's my favorite part :)

Alex - You're so cool :)

VR - They are laughable, for sure!

Julie - But of course...LOL :)

Shirley - No heaps here either :(
November 18, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Elspeth Futcher said…
Great list, Carol! I'd like directions to that moolah mountain. Pretty please.
November 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
Linda K - Did your sister show her story to her husband? Did he get the hint - LOL!

Emily - If I don't write for a few days, I get really cranky.

Theresa - I hear them, too. Loud and clear.

Manzanita - Exactly! Maybe that part is a Scorpio thing :)

Elpeth - So would I. Sadly, they're MIA at present. Let's keep looking :)
November 18, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Donna Volkenannt said…
How true, especially number 6.
November 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Luanne G. Smith said…
I may have written a revenge scene once or twice. :P

Have a great weekend.
November 18, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Robyn Campbell said…
I've done a few of these. Except number eight. (Well the bad critique--yes. The bad review--.*sigh* Not yet, anyway.

And number ten. It sounds cool!!!!!!!!! I'd even take a hill! A molehill. An ant hill. Well, you catch my drift.

*waving and smiling*
November 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Carol Kilgore said…
Donna - And they're so demanding...

L.G. - You must be a Scorpio :)

Robyn - I think we'd all like #10 :)

Lydia - Yup!
November 18, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Laura Eno said…
#6 and #1 are soooo true! #10 would also be nice. :)
Have a great weekend!
November 18, 2011 at 5:19 PM
Janet, said…
I like #10, though I doubt I will ever achieve that one. Also no one ever told us how hard it would be to get published.
November 18, 2011 at 5:29 PM
Golden Eagle said…
Great list!

And #5--definitely. :)
November 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM
Empty Nest Insider said…
I'm a definite #2! Oh that doesn't sound good. What I mean is I write to entertain, but I usually just end up entertaining myself. I probably should just take up mahjong! Great list as always! Julie
November 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Carol Kilgore said…
Laura - I agree.

Janet - Isn't that the truth!

Golden Eagle - Sometimes that need is overpowering.

Julie - So funny! I try to entertain, too.
November 18, 2011 at 9:08 PM
Tracy Jo said…
Yes, those darn voices in my head.

:-)

Have a great weekend!!
November 18, 2011 at 10:24 PM
Arlee Bird said…
I would like #10 to be number 1 and the rest would follow. Show me the money!

Lee
The Roswell Story continues on Wrote By Rote on Saturday 11/19/11
November 19, 2011 at 12:50 AM
Anonymous said…
Yup, I just can't stop.

Where is this moolah you speak of?

Have a great weekend.
November 19, 2011 at 4:38 AM
LR said…
I won't deny that number 10 would sure be nice! :)
November 19, 2011 at 6:56 AM
Colette Martin said…
Great list! But oh, where it the moolah...
November 19, 2011 at 7:21 AM
T. Powell Coltrin said…
Writers write for the same reason readers read to escape the real world.

Great list, Girl.
November 19, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
Tracy Jo - Any idea how they get in there?

Arlee - LOL!

Medeia - I've only heard rumors.

LR - I agree!

Colette - I wish I knew.

Teresa - True!
November 19, 2011 at 9:23 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
Prasetyo - Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

Holly - Cool :)
November 19, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Talli Roland said…
Exactly! It certainly ain't for money, I'll tell ya that... :)
November 20, 2011 at 6:56 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
Talli - Ain't that the truth!
November 20, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Cynthia Chapman Willis said…
Oooo, revenge. That's a good one. But seriously, yeah, I can't stop writing. But I sort of love that I can't. ; )
November 20, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Carol Kilgore said…
Cynthia - Sshhh...don't tell anyone, but I sort of love that, too :)
November 20, 2011 at 10:03 PM
julie fedderson said…
#6 is a nice way of saying "to make the voices stop". Writing is like embracing something that might get you a psych diagnosis in any other situation.
November 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM
notesfromnadir said…
You're right, writers can't stop writing because they're always thinking about their next [or current] story.
November 22, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Carol Kilgore said…
So true! Good to see you :)
November 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM
BECKY said…
Whoa, somehow I missed this. What day is it?? And I'm not even a Nanoer! Great list as always!
November 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM
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