I just shared and posted my experience in getting a LEARNER'S LICENSE (for first time drivers) here in Florida.
I went here in my blogspot after I published the said article above in WordPress.
I tried to open some saved bookmarks to get an idea on what I can write about but I don't like them.
I opened a book entitled What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers but nothing caught my interest at the moment.
I bought the book after seeing it in a Thrift Shop knowing it would come in handy as a reference book even though I like writing non fiction more than fiction.
And then...
while typing the word license a question popped in my mind...
Can anyone just get the LICENSE to WRITE?
It is interesting to realized that driving and writing have similarities.
It is said that driving is not a right but a privilege with great responsibility.
And it can be withdrawn anytime you don't drive responsibly (i.e. driving under influence or texting while driving)
Now how about writing? Is it a right?or more like a privilege?
Anyone has the right to write (nice homonyms).
But isn't it a privilege to be read by some and of course by many?
Some write responsibly and some don't.
Everyone writes for different reasons, with different or similar goals.
With purpose (consciously or subconsciously).
Just like we drive to go somewhere...we write to tell..to show...to let the story flow and go somewhere.
Some people write to impress, to earn money, to persuade, to sell, and some write..mostly for themselves yet sharing it with the hope it can and will make sense to someone else.
And sometimes we drive and write to escape.
Just like we drive to go out of the house, we write to get thoughts out of our minds...of ourselves.
I remember reading, hearing, learning, and agreeing that everything seemed to be written already. All topics and stories (existing and non existing in real life but exist in the mind/imagination of someone) they said in a way had been written already and there are just some parts changed or just told/written differently by various authors.
Saw the article proving that researchers analyzed over 1700 novels and found out that every story in the world has one of these six basic plots?
Read the The Seven Basic Plots?
There are also those who are saying there are 9 basic plots. The only difference is how many they count but the point remains that they all fall to a finite number of plots.
Just as I only have a learner's license in driving, just like how I am learning to drive now...
I feel like I am eternally holding a learner's license in writing.
But learners can be teachers too.
Learners can share something important too.
And I'll end this post here even when I don't like using two too's and ending two sentences in the same word.
Cause imitating and repeating are not always as bad as they seem...at all.
