C. Stuart Hardwick
Looking at the calendar.
A wise man once said, an amateur wishes for inspiration while a professional knows only an ammeter depends on inspiration. The world is chock full of story ideas, themes, heartbreak, worries, and everything a story teller needs to get to work. When I hear authors complaining that they lack ideas, I have to assume they are in the wrong line of work.
Writing is hard--vastly harder than it appears from the outside--and writing well enough for anyone to care is harder still. But inspiration isn't what makes is hard. What makes it hard is the complex of story craft, emotional investment, crushing rejection, mind numbing revision, and exhausting self-promotional work. Inspiration to wade through all that and get back to writing is simple. Life is short--too short to get enough done.
A wise man once said, an amateur wishes for inspiration while a professional knows only an ammeter depends on inspiration. The world is chock full of story ideas, themes, heartbreak, worries, and everything a story teller needs to get to work. When I hear authors complaining that they lack ideas, I have to assume they are in the wrong line of work.
Writing is hard--vastly harder than it appears from the outside--and writing well enough for anyone to care is harder still. But inspiration isn't what makes is hard. What makes it hard is the complex of story craft, emotional investment, crushing rejection, mind numbing revision, and exhausting self-promotional work. Inspiration to wade through all that and get back to writing is simple. Life is short--too short to get enough done.
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