Comment on A Writer’s Life – Part Two by J. Collard

I just listened to the “Writer’s Life” podcasts. I really enjoyed them both. Ian – I really hear you about why you chose the medium of writing over the vast array of other mediums. I too love orchestrating words and sentences and phrases; but mostly I love writing and saying what I so want to say. It’s the idea that there is something beautiful in the difficult process of articulating what is inside of me, or of what is outside of me that I am trying to understand.

I also really resonate with your thoughts about being alone, and how writing can help to break (at least this is the way I am interpretting what you said) that sense of aloneness that we feel. My favorite quote about writing (one that I’m sure you’ve heard) is C.S. Lewis’s quote, “We read so that we know we are not alone.” I love that. We are alone, and yet in some ways, our sense of aloneness is an illusion.