Being a Warrior for Your Writing and Creativity!
An interviewer asked Fran Leibowitz why, if it's so hard, she continues to write. She said: "The rewards of any warrior. The word that best describes my feeling of having written is triumphant — triumphant on the level of Alexander the Great. Having overcome your worst fear, the thing you are most vulnerable to, that is the definition of heroic. Also, it's such a worthwhile human activity. The most."Amen!
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ReplyDeleteThat is well said.
ReplyDeleteI've also heard from another author that "a writer is a person who cannot not write."
I find this to be quite true. No matter how difficult it can sometimes be to write, it is something you just cannot tear away from.
There are tricks to help make it easier though, especially learning to let go and allow the writing to happen.