Writing. Sometimes the Struggle is real By S.C. Wynne

Good morning, all!

I think sometimes people have fantasies about certain jobs. I owned a coffee house for ten years, and people would come in all the time and talk about how relaxing it would be to own a coffee house. The good part about that was obviously we were providing a very relaxing, serene atmosphere for our customers. So much so that they apparently thought running the business was easy. Not so much.
Any business is hard. I don't care if you sell hair ties, I'm sure there are supply issues and all sorts of things that make the day to day business a challenge. Writing is the same. I know often people think that writing is relaxing. The coming up with ideas part is easy, but every step that follows after is hard. Really hard. Trying to be creative when you simply don't feel creative is torture. Maybe not as torturous as cleaning septic tanks, but it's still hard work.
Most jobs, people take something already made and they work with that. They either improve on it or promote it and sell it. Writing is weird in that there is no product if authors don't create it. If I have a bad day, nothing ends up on the page. That equals no sales, which equals no food on the table. And being interrupted when you're trying to be creative is awful. It's not like if you're adding numbers and someone interrupts you and you can just go back to the spot where you stopped. When you're writing, you have to lose yourself in your world. The world you're creating. Every word and second of that story has to come from the authors brain. When something interrupts that flow, it can take hours to get back into the scene. Sometimes you can't get back there because that magical moment has passed. It's hard to explain unless you've experienced it.
Now, I say all of this simply to let you see into the world of writing. But that doesn't mean I don't still love writing for a living. I do. I absolutely wouldn't want to do anything else. I know there are tons of people using ghostwriters and click farms in my genre, but I'd never go there. I love writing way too much. Creating the stories is the best part. I'd feel like a complete fraud if I used click farms and ghost writers. Obviously, to each their own, but that is how it would impact me. I'm a creative person, and I choose to actually create my own stories.
But as I said, difficult or not, I can't imagine doing anything else other than writing the stories I love, and want to share with my readers.
S.C.

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