Murder and Mayhem
WHY DO W WRITE???
I often wonder what makes ANYONE sit down and write books or anything else. IS it something inside our brains that clicks on one day when we're a child, or older, that says, "Write this!"
I've heard plenty of writers say they had one book in mind and that stretched to two or three. They just kept going. I've known writers who were almost at the top of their profession only to lose it and start all over again.
WHAT MAKES US KEEP GOING???
There isn't a lot of money in it for most people, like all the other arts. It has to be some divine madness that possesses us all making us stay up late to find those perfect words, challenging us to change a character, even though it means changing a thousand words of text that may never be seen by anyone other than ourselves.
We exhaust ourselves to promote at places where only two readers sit and wait (if we're lucky), take abuse from critics who are wannabewriters who don't have the courage to do it themselves and listen to doomsayers who can only talk about how books and the written word are old fashioned.
WHY DO WE WRITE??? Because we'd be crazy if we didn't, I guess. Because we were born to record something of our time that we were here, if only for a moment. Because it is what we do. Nothing else matters.
Joyce
Swapping Paint and Poisoned Petals
May 2007
www.joyceandjimlavene.com
I often wonder what makes ANYONE sit down and write books or anything else. IS it something inside our brains that clicks on one day when we're a child, or older, that says, "Write this!"
I've heard plenty of writers say they had one book in mind and that stretched to two or three. They just kept going. I've known writers who were almost at the top of their profession only to lose it and start all over again.
WHAT MAKES US KEEP GOING???
There isn't a lot of money in it for most people, like all the other arts. It has to be some divine madness that possesses us all making us stay up late to find those perfect words, challenging us to change a character, even though it means changing a thousand words of text that may never be seen by anyone other than ourselves.
We exhaust ourselves to promote at places where only two readers sit and wait (if we're lucky), take abuse from critics who are wannabewriters who don't have the courage to do it themselves and listen to doomsayers who can only talk about how books and the written word are old fashioned.
WHY DO WE WRITE??? Because we'd be crazy if we didn't, I guess. Because we were born to record something of our time that we were here, if only for a moment. Because it is what we do. Nothing else matters.
Joyce
Swapping Paint and Poisoned Petals
May 2007
www.joyceandjimlavene.com
posted by Carolina Conspiracy at 1:37 PM
