The Itch

Have you ever gotten a creative itch? Have you ever experienced a short period in which you had something you need to say, or an idea you needed to express, and you had to do it immediately, right then and there? I love that feeling. Hell, sometimes, I live for that feeling. To me, one of the greatest pleasures in life is, in the middle of the night, leaving my bedroom, going downstairs, and writing what I feel needs to be written. Occasionally it's just something small, a single sentence, but other times, it's something that works out to be much bigger, like a paragraph, or a story. I live for those moments of lucidity, where all the words on a page just come together, as if you yourself weren't writing it, as if you were simply copying down something lain out before you. You almost feel possessed, as if the words had a mind of there own. Come to think of it, this feeling may have been what the Greeks (if I remember correctly) attributed to the Muse, the being of pure creation from Greek (I think?) myth. The Itch is what really got me into writing, I guess.


I guess I might as well talk about how I got into writing. I started writing recreationally in Grade Nine, when I signed on to do reviews for the school paper. (Which I should probably do soon...) I figured, I enjoy film, games, and books, and I enjoy criticizing people, so why not combine the two, right? Admittedly, my reviews were rather awful, and often turned out to be simple summaries of the subject of the review. Looking back, I am rather ashamed of them. To be fair, I hate pretty much ALL of my work, so that's nothing special. I've continued writing reviews on-and-off to this day, at a very inconsistent pace, which again, I am not proud of. Oh, well. Anyways, the second major event in my life as a writer came only last year, when a story I wrote managed to make it into a Waterloo district writing competition. It lost, quite deservedly, I suppose. Since then, I've been trying to write more often which is... what I'm doing right now, come to think of it.


Who knows, maybe I'll get the itch soon...

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