Writing
Posted by luminescence on November 16, 2006
I just read something on Nancy’s blog about the need of writers to write, and then lose their writing when it’s sometimes subconsciously appropriate. I started to skim the entry (sorry nance) after a while because i started thinking fast and wanted to get some ideas out. Now, I wouldn’t claim to be a “writer” although I write professionally. But to me a writer is some kind of magical being, kind of like a unicorn. I guess the pointy horn is the pen. Anyway, I’m off track, I think writing is something that’s magical. For me, I don’t do it enough. But when I do, I feel decent about myself, which is better than how I feel most of the time when I just feel bad.
And so, for a writer, there’s a lot of the action of writing that happens, that no one ever sees. That’s why it’s sort of disgusting when the sons and daughters of authors, rifling through their desks post-mortem publish a half-completed novel, journals, etc. It feels like a violation.
[Someone just called me so I lost my train of thought. But I guess I'll publish what I have so far.]
sonia said
Sorry Stu. Was that me on the phone squashing your deep thoughts?
Nancy said
Thnaks Stu. I don’t mind that you skimmed my *Carol* piece @ http://www.writingwithnancy.typepad.com I thought the minute I posted the damn thing, I had committed the very crime I was talking about but unfortuantely I hadn’t succeeded in *losing* half of it! Indeed I needed to write 10 times more than you needed to read…and ditto on the post mortem stuff. Mostly I’m loving you, of all people, in the same breath *publishing* half-finished thoughts!
Alexa said
This was awesome:
“ut to me a writer is some kind of magical being, kind of like a unicorn. I guess the pointy horn is the pen. Anyway, I’m off track, I think writing is something that’s magical. For me, I don’t do it enough. But when I do, I feel decent about myself, which is better than how I feel most of the time when I just feel bad.”
your funny Stu