Philip Mann
The flip answer is that I don't want to spend my retirement delivering pizza or working at Walmart.
The more serious answer is that finishing a scene, a paragraph, or even a single sentence and knowing that you hit it bang on can be as rewarding a feeling as you can find. You do have to be careful not to fall in love with your own work, and yes, a writer will always require the cool gaze of an editor to say whether a scene works or not. But at a certain point, you know when you connect.
And the achieving of that point is my inspiration.
The more serious answer is that finishing a scene, a paragraph, or even a single sentence and knowing that you hit it bang on can be as rewarding a feeling as you can find. You do have to be careful not to fall in love with your own work, and yes, a writer will always require the cool gaze of an editor to say whether a scene works or not. But at a certain point, you know when you connect.
And the achieving of that point is my inspiration.
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