The Job of the Writer
It’s early and I’m waxing poetic on this one…
The job of the Writer is both an honored occupation and a lost one. Centuries ago, one 
could compose sonnets or weave tales and their livelihoods could be supplied by kings and queens. Centuries ago, the telling of tales could supply bards and orators with food for the night and a roof over one’s head. Now, the job of the Writer is often met with quizzical looks and uncertain understandings. Now, the job of the Writer is met with standards of fan base quantity and financial gain as opposed to level of the writing.
The job of the Writer is to be both master and slave to the writing. Writers can call forth language from the ether and sculpt articles, stories and novels with nothing else but their thoughts – Be they a collection in Midwest Indiana meeting and critiquing. Be they young journalists in Central Mexico writing officially on health and well-being. Or be they wielders of the language from 11th century England or delivering stories to children with African pyramids as their backdrop – all these and more are Writers and they can summon words with but a thought and yet it is the writing that summons them.
Despite illness. Despite condition. Despite time. The job of the Writer calls regardlessly and must be answered.
The job of the Writer is to show the soul of the people, the soul of humanity at the time in which the Writer is writing. Regardless of content – be it fan-fiction of teenage love and vampire affection; be it the blogging of endless sites describing culinary adventures or aspects of shopping or be it novels and articles on momentous moments in history. All of these writings are capturings of the human condition at the moment. If musicians are the ears of humanity and artists and painters be the eyes then the Writer is the voice of mankind – speaking and telling of its time for generations to come.
The job of the Writer is a weighty one that is full of both blinding purpose and bewildering action. The job of the Writer is a sacred one that is full of both sanctity and silliness.
And ultimately, the job of the Writer is to write.
