#169 Toys and #171 Indulgence
#169 Toys and #171 Indulgence
I thought I would combine these two prompts since my toys are something I consider to be an indulgence. I'd like to introduce you to my toys, my characters. Sano Izumi, Ashiya Mizuki, Tabby Stark and her half-brother Jon. Say hello, everyone. These are my muses, the voices in my head. (o_~) Bringing them to life (on paper at least), allowing them to become real, to have a voice, a life. That's my indulgence.
Writing like this isn't something I'm really serious about. I don't think I'm very good at it, and I don't expect anything to come out of it. There is too much talent in the world for me to be on any consequence. But I don't do it for other people. I do it because I enjoy it. I admire other writers and try to push myself to be better, but in the end, writing is something I do for myself and myself alone. It's something I can do and be completely selfish about. I don't care about pleasing other people and I'm not foolish enough to think that what I have to say matters to anyone or makes a difference in the world. Writing is important to me, though. It's an outlet. A place to funnel creative energy or inspiration, something to keep me occupied in times of boredom, even something I can share with a few special people. ^_^
For me, I guess writing is the ultimate in self-indulgence. I wouldn't really call it a guilty pleasure, though. I have no guilt about writing or toying with my muses lives. Prying into their personal business and throwing curve balls at them just to see what they'll do. I don't care if my poetry is bad or most of my stories are unfinished. I don't really care if people know I adopted characters from a Manga and made them my own, or that I'm not very original in coming up with things to write about. In my world, in this one area of my life, it's all about me. I'm the boss, what I say goes. I make the rules, I can defy gravity. Past and future hold no boundaries, I can change the laws of nature, create new seasons, new planets, new people. And in my world no one judges me. It is the ultimate in freedom, my favourite toy.