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'It'
By TwistedTales
23 December 2006
This is about the great 'it'.

Your opinions always count as usual..please keep them coming.

I want to be a writer and so it’s my duty to keep writing and keep myself occupied. Just so that people don’t question when I am sitting idle, I tell them, I write only when ‘it’ hits me. ‘It’ has to come to me. People ask me, what the hell is this ‘it’? I tell them, this ‘it’ is my inspiration, my motivation, my creative spurt. I won’t survive without this ‘it’.

I have nightmares of ‘it’ leaving me for good. I get petrified. So I keep my laptop really close to me and type anything and everything that comes to me, just so that, ‘it’ doesn’t get a chance to leave me. It’s amazing how much power; ‘it’ has over people. ‘Greatwriting’ would have never been here in the first place had, ‘it’ not been there. Everything begins with ‘it’ and ends with ‘it’. Bestsellers wouldn’t have happened, had the authors not been bitten by the ‘it’ bug.

Many a great works have been stopped abruptly, because ‘it’ left them midway. One thing that’s very bad with ‘it’ is that it comes to you wearing many disguises and you got to choose the one that you like. But ‘it’ would try to confuse you to the hilt and then after teasing you for a while, ‘it’ will come to you. But when ‘it’ comes, oh boy, you can have as many orgasms as you want.

I pray to god that ‘it’ stays with me forever. ‘It’ is no one’s. ‘It’ has no loyalty. It stays with those who respect ‘it’ and attend to ‘it’ the moment they feel or see ‘it’.

“What the hell is this Mr.Adam?” hollered Professor Gaylord.      

“This is my writing assignment Sir.”

“Really. You call this piece of shit, a writing assignment. Please take this ‘it’ with you and try to get ‘it’ printed. You will simply get a kick up your bum and thrown out of every publisher’s office. Now go back and write me something sensible”.

“Y-Yes sir, I am sorry my ‘it’ bothered you so much. I will think of some other ‘it’.

“GET OUT”, screamed the professor and thumped the duster hard on his desk.  

Reviews

Written by Phil (6713 comments posted) 23rd December 2006
I enjoyed the first half of this a lot and particularly related to 'it' coming in many disguises. My problem is that I rarely recognise it. 
 
The second half took me a little by surprise. Not sure that worked for me. 
 
Phil.

Written by teddy (240 comments posted) 29th December 2006
I must say this made me laugh. Nice piece of writing, it’s funny and clever crafted. You’ve definitely got ‘it’.  
 
teddy 

Written by Thatllbemethen (83 comments posted) 2nd January 2007
I too was surprised when this essay became a story. 
 
Thought you could have worked 'it' slightly differently. 
 
When you find greater success at writing this will be an interesting piece to reflect upon. 
 
Liked the style.

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