Today's Daily Literature Quote is...

Quote Originally Posted by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.”
People often ask me why I write, and it's really a simple answer, I don't see the stories I want to see out there. Personally I love crafting tales of adventures, whether they are as mundane as getting anxious over waiting for a birthday present to arrive or something as big as slaying a dragon. These are all events that I love to write, and one of my favorite things to do is to get a situation and then think, "This character would go great here," and write about that character being in that situation rather than crafting a new character for that situation. Sometimes its great, but other times its more fun to flesh out preexisting characters for those reasons. So, I found it interesting to think of yourself as an explorer, because we often see ourselves as creators, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. When I'm writing a story, I'm not creating the world in which my characters live, I'm exploring it, figuring out the different rules that do and don't apply. When you are writing a story, at least when I write a story, I often imagine the character is relaying to me what they want to have written down in the story, and often times I can tell that I'm going in the right direction if the story flows well. If the story just doesn't feel right, then I know I'm not writing it the way it is supposed to be written, I'm not detailing the discoveries of my exploration the correct way, so I back up and try again, moving forward from there.