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I want to write as others do: a tale, set in our real world, of characters who might live therein, not citizens of some airy demesne beyond the stars!"
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"Why is that more desirable than what you write today?"
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"People will read such stories; they are worth publishing."
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Allan sat down at his desk and pulled the chair in close.
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"That is precisely why I must excise this malignant instinct!"
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"Why do you write?"
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"…Why – to earn a living, I suppose.
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Why do you ask?"
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"You choose to write rather than become a fisherman or a carpenter, though you face such difficulty.
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I would not be happy, thus separated from it."
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"So at its heart, then, your writing – as opposed to working otherwise – is for yourself?"
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"Yes, I suppose one could see it thus.
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But really, Nathan, your queer habits of conversation have reached a new level."
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Ignoring the statement, Nathan continued.
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"Your writing is for you, Allan, not for the publishers or some imagined audience.
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Since you seem unable to write 'normally,' why not embrace your tales as they are, leave behind the one unhappiness in the art you admit is a source of pleasure?
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Your stories strike a chord with the deepest, most ancient stories of mankind, the tales basic to humanity.
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You need not pander to what you imagine their wants are; speak, and they shall listen."
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Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank.
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He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers.
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His eyes awoke with a passionate, determined flame, though the only light came from the glutted moon.
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Allan filled page after page, the words escaping from his mind onto the paper.
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Where before they had marched in regiments, practiced in ranks and followed their leaders' commands, the words now escaped in their true forms, unhindered by any stricture.
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He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward.
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Arthur looked up from the results of a night’s frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye.
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"What is this?"
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he queried, indicating the pages he held in his left hand.
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"I decided that… since I wasn't having much success with more – traditional – stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely,"
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"I decided that… since I wasn't having much success with more – traditional – stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely," Allan replied, somewhat less self-assured than he had been the previous night.
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Although the concept was a simple one, Allan thought it had potential.
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"What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing,"
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