I really liked writing as a kid. I don't know why. Something drew me to it, and as a young kid playing Sonic in the third grade, I never pieced it together. I failed to turn in both creative writing things we worked on in the forth grade simply because I still wasn't done six pages in. Most kids had stopped at a paragraph and I had no way I could tell my whole story in that expanse. I filled every place and thing I could with details.
It wasn't until 2011 that I realized why I liked writing so much in the first place, and it's thanks to a little idea known as the Infinite Alternate Universe Theory.
You see, according the the IAUT (as I'll call it), there are an infinite number of universes coexisting right now. Any work of fiction, then, is actually happening in some far-off universe right now. The moment I read that was a power trip.
What I had been doing that entire time I was writing was creating a living, working universe, or rather telling the true stories of a universe far from ours.
It's a beautiful thought. You hold in your power the ability to weave together the tales of one of the universe's worlds and make it your own. You are the god of an entire realm you will never see. And every work of fiction you could ever imagine is a reality somewhere out there as well.
Granted, this also would mean that somewhere is a universe that consists solely of a carton of eggs and a radio that plays only Smash Mouth tracks at any given moment.
Is the theory real? Perhaps, but it's more likely false than otherwise. But regardless, it's quite a humbling thought that every work of fiction you write is actually the truth in that universe. Somewhere, there's a group of young men heading off to cast a ring into a mountain. Somewhere out there, a young teen is getting up just after midnight because his best friend has built a time machine. Somewhere else, a pair of twins are discovering the brother of their great uncle, who has been missing after thirty long years. When you write, you rule a universe, and that universe deserves the best you can possibly muster.
And that's why I took up writing. I want to create, and while video games and films can definitely do this in a much more visually interesting way, those require a lot of effort and often money to do right. Writing just requires the words you know, an imagination, and a place to write. That's all.
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