Pathways

Jenny Davidson on finding your way as a writer:

I am pretty sure I really am going to stop writing novels, by the way; I don't have the resources of time and attention to do it properly, and it then erodes my pleasure in other things I should be enjoying more, namely my core mission of reading and writing about books and generally living in the world of words and ideas.

And Theodora Goss takes stock:



When you're a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing. (Someone quote me on Goodreads. That's the secret, in good times and bad: keep writing.) To figure out, or remember, who I am as a teacher, a writer, even simply as a person. To act out of that knowledge, rather than out of stress or anxiety.

My writing path is leading me again, surprisingly, to the Last Frontier. I didn't expect this. I watch reality tv and the notion of the Last Frontier is both sad and silly. But then I remember that frontier is what we make it and so I settle down and write again. The other day I found this while looking for the meaning behind the word "frontier". It's a Levis commercial but I love it. And it is exactly what I know frontier to be.