Writing is like having a baby
27th May 2017 | for Creatives | creating isn't easy, writing, the creative life, David James Poissant |
"Writing is like having a baby. If you wait until you can afford to spare the time, you'll never do it."
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whether I feel like it or not
"Writing is my joy, but not alwasy; much of the time it is my job, and I have to write whether I feel like it or not, whether inspiration strikes or not. That is how you make a story unfold."
Self-publishing is not easier
"Self-publishing is not easier, as you will find yourself mucking about in covers and copyediting and distribution and marketing for more hours than you spend writing—and when you publish traditionally you find yourself losing a lot of control over your work timelines and visions for the book's marketing."
Writing Never Gets Easy
"I've learned that writing never gets easy. When the work is hard (emotionally, intellectually, creatively) you have to work hard (emotionally, intellectually, creatively). Maybe it's akin to sports: players work forward. Even a game win yesterday does not mean you don't have practice today and another game tomorrow. It never gets easy."
all-consuming effort
"There is so much more to 'being a writer' than putting words to paper. The process that a writer endures is wholly intensive, an all-consuming effort that can define one's day, week, month, year."
removing all the little barriers
"The first use for propinquity is removing all the little barriers that will keep you from writing. The more of these exist, the less likely you are to write. Many of them are simple, and some so tiny you may doubt that they'll keep you from writing. But they will."