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Saxonia Issue 02 Part 012
What to write
By Rumrunner/VOID
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Some while ago, while reading Jurassic Pack issue 11 there was one
article that really got my attention. It was the article "What story do
you want" by Gone/VOID^Scarab. In this article, Gone tells that he has
experienced people telling either him directly or telling maineditors of
the mag(s) in question that they think he doesn't write about the "right"
topics. He tells that he writes what interests him, and I have one thing
to say about that. [1 Well done there, Gone [0 . I couldn't agree more.
You might have read through issue one of Saxonia, and seen my articles
there. It shouldn't take too long to understand that I do exactly the
same that Gone does. I write about what interests me, no matter if it
is computers, cars or anything else. Just take a look at articles such
as "wooden cup", "fool the car authorities" and "black gold". If you can
connect these to the computer world in some way or another, tell me,
because I cannot.
What I am heading for here is why should we write about things that
doesn't interest us, perhaps never have interested us, or simply
something that is not motivating enough to write about at the moment?
Do you really think an article would be informative or amusing, let
alone a good piece of work if we did? Surely not. I have been writing
essays in school for several years, and I know how it is writing about
political systems in Guatemala and stuff like that which interests me
about as much as George W. Bush's hemorrhoids (not at all if that wasn't
clear enough). It simply cannot be a good piece of work. By the way, if
anybody wonders, I managed quite well in "videregående skole" for some
reason or another. And I even got good marks in norwegian, where all
tests were in essay-form. How did I do that? I always found some way
to write about things that interested me, no matter what the text should
be about. And I also found some reasons to state as to why it was
important to discuss the things I did, so then, they had to give me good
marks. Looking back at that time and that subject, I think that I could
not have been luckier. Exams were 5 hour tests, I picked one of the
possible assignments, wrote for about 75 minutes, and then left, much
to the other's amusement. And the reason why this worked well is that I
could write about things that interested me. If I couldn't, I would have
used all five hours without writing a single line.
So, back to Gone's article. I think that all those who want other subjects
discussed in diskmags should write themselves. It's time that people start
doing something themselves if they want to change anything. The scene is
not a political instance like the government, so some small riots can
make a difference. Why do you think I use scrollers and copper-effects
in my productions? Because I like them and want to see more of them. The
same goes for articles. Tell about what interest you and not what interest
others, they can write about that themselves.
