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Aug. 3rd, 2005 01:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyI've never considered writing children's stories.
It's strange. It always seemed... like it wouldn't be wanting enough, like it would be somehow failing, to want to do that. I don't know why that is.
It's the stories that I love telling. Not the style and the ponderings and post-modernism and intellectual literariness. That's not me. I love stories, and making people want to know what comes next. I love things that don't have to mean something, and don't have to be a metaphor, but can merely be there because they make someone smile.
I don't know if I can write for children. They are remarkably good at seeing through bullshit.
I don't know if I can allow myself this ambition. I think it will be more rewarding for me, because I think it's something I can do without constantly torturing myself that I'm not nearly good enough. But maybe I'm only nearly good enough.
I guess the only way I can know that is to try, really.
It's strange. It always seemed... like it wouldn't be wanting enough, like it would be somehow failing, to want to do that. I don't know why that is.
It's the stories that I love telling. Not the style and the ponderings and post-modernism and intellectual literariness. That's not me. I love stories, and making people want to know what comes next. I love things that don't have to mean something, and don't have to be a metaphor, but can merely be there because they make someone smile.
I don't know if I can write for children. They are remarkably good at seeing through bullshit.
I don't know if I can allow myself this ambition. I think it will be more rewarding for me, because I think it's something I can do without constantly torturing myself that I'm not nearly good enough. But maybe I'm only nearly good enough.
I guess the only way I can know that is to try, really.
