Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Jul 20 2010
Writing, not to make a living, but as a way of life
Writing has always been something I've done as second nature, even before I knew how to form atual words. I used to watch my mother write and would ask for paper of my own, making circles and squiggles and loops in an imitation of her actual script. When people ask me how they can know if they're really a writer, one of things I ask them is if they write things when they don't really have to write and if they get pleasure from doing so. If you've never penned a poem or novel, but you find yourself making little lists and writing words together just to see what kind of phrase they'd make, you might be a writer who's just never been official about it. You can be a writer and still do almost any other job. It's not an either/or kind of situation. Knowing that, if you find youself writing down all the things that happened on your last vaction trip, consider the possibility that your subconscious mind may be telling you to get busy with something you thought only real writers did.
posted at: 19:33 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Writing has always been something I've done as second nature, even before I knew how to form atual words. I used to watch my mother write and would ask for paper of my own, making circles and squiggles and loops in an imitation of her actual script. When people ask me how they can know if they're really a writer, one of things I ask them is if they write things when they don't really have to write and if they get pleasure from doing so. If you've never penned a poem or novel, but you find yourself making little lists and writing words together just to see what kind of phrase they'd make, you might be a writer who's just never been official about it. You can be a writer and still do almost any other job. It's not an either/or kind of situation. Knowing that, if you find youself writing down all the things that happened on your last vaction trip, consider the possibility that your subconscious mind may be telling you to get busy with something you thought only real writers did.
posted at: 19:33 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
