G.L. Morrison
The hours? The excuse to stay up all night because "I'm working". Shhhing people when you're thinking/writing. Words! Having an animated intimate relationship with words. Sexy words, argumentative words, consoling words, silly words. Job evolution. Writing changes (writing changes you!) you can swap genres, be different personas, write children's books or plays or t-shirt slogans.
The VERY best thing about writing is readers. Readers who say your writing touched, helped, influenced, inspired them or changed their minds.
It's like an olympic torch rally. You take something important to you and pass it on. But imagine instead you are at the center of a circle and dozens of people light their torch off the one you started. Then they all run in different directions, lighting other torches as they go. Suddenly the world is lit up in places you could never have imagined; illuminated by a blaze you started. It's mind-boggling.
The VERY best thing about writing is readers. Readers who say your writing touched, helped, influenced, inspired them or changed their minds.
It's like an olympic torch rally. You take something important to you and pass it on. But imagine instead you are at the center of a circle and dozens of people light their torch off the one you started. Then they all run in different directions, lighting other torches as they go. Suddenly the world is lit up in places you could never have imagined; illuminated by a blaze you started. It's mind-boggling.
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