I don't trust writers who say they love writing. Sounds fake. I spend 99.9% of the time dragging words from my soul in a mood of disgruntled suffering and discontent.
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and then trusting the process enough to realise the perfect turn of phrase will pop into your head when you're sweeping the floor or walking the dog and you have to furiously voice-note yourself
To be fair, I do this because 0.1% of the time words will spring forth in an ecstasy of inspiration - a feeling I am constantly chasing, and almost never attain.
Writers are addicts who are always chasing the next high but the high is inspired words and we have no control over when that high will come. That is why we're mostly absolute bastards when we're sat at the keyboard mines.
I have a creative writing BA and MA and I swear I was the only person who was like "I hate this, but I have a mighty need to get this out onto paper". I am suspicious of ALL OF THEM
I suspect they love having written not the actual writing part. That glorious sense of relief that that wriggling pile of discordant voices and concepts is trapped on the paper and you are free until the psychic noise gets too loud again or the Dreaded EDITING begins.
One of my friends really does enjoy it. Not most the time, just when it's not the novel he's *supposed* to be writing but what he calls an "attack novel" that his muse has just hit him with while kicking him hard in the shins
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else he's going to have to persuade his agent