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Whim

No, I am going to buy three new pencils.  I have 12 cents now.

posted by Witty_Woman on October 1, 2004 at 7:27 AM | link to this | reply

So, now are you going to spend your four cents on a new pencil?

Being read is a great motivation to write more.  In the real world, so few people understand the need to write. 

posted by Whim on October 1, 2004 at 7:20 AM | link to this | reply

fortunately being a writer is a pleasure everyone is capable of .

posted by scriber on October 1, 2004 at 7:11 AM | link to this | reply

Like you said about yourself earlier in the comments, WW, I believe

a writer is simply who I am, too :) xx.

posted by Moohahaha on October 1, 2004 at 4:41 AM | link to this | reply

witty woman

of course i am a REAL writer!! It's real and I wrote it....write?

posted by Kelli on October 1, 2004 at 4:26 AM | link to this | reply

Evangeline

I did actually look at some photos of New Orleans while I was reading the stories, so I could get an image in my mind, and it looks a very atmospheric place, which somewhere has to be for me.  I would love to visit, but unfortunately I'm a little too far away! 

posted by Witty_Woman on September 30, 2004 at 9:11 PM | link to this | reply

absolutely correct

Writing is this mysterious compulsion for me. I am miserable when I can't do it. But sometimes I am equally miserable when I can. It is exhausting, draining. It is of me, yet not of me at all.  And as far as being a paid writer--what rot! Some of the greatest voices in literature went to their graves penny poor, like Melville. Moby -Dick was rediscovered in the 30s, nearly a century after Melville labored over it.  There is a tremendous difference between someone with a sensitive gift and someone who writes no more than adequately, yet pounds out pablum for Cosmo or Ladies Home Journal.  The best writers are in the little magazines, the journals, and they pay in copies. 

Glad you like my Ghosts blog in travel.  New Orleans is unlike anywhere in the US. Come on down and visit. I'm going to try to include photos in my Ghost stories so that readers can actually see these places. 

posted by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on September 30, 2004 at 9:00 PM | link to this | reply

I think I am a writer...

'Even if it's only a blog, knowing that others enjoy what you write is more important than any money you may receive, even more so if they return to read more.'

and I can definitely agree with your statement above.  Part of the pleasure comes from re-working my words for a better sounding end result. The kudos are just the icing on the top, so I agree one can be a writer even if not paid to write.  The love and practise of the art is what is most important.

 

posted by word.smith on September 30, 2004 at 12:32 PM | link to this | reply

Amen!

I'm sure we can all relate to this...at least we should be able to, right? ;)

posted by ginnieb on September 30, 2004 at 7:39 AM | link to this | reply

One thing that has helped me is that I just got this new computer

and the keyboard does what I tell it to. I can type about forty words a minute but my old keyboard sucked and I couldn't type at all on it because it fought me over every single letter.  Thank God for decent keyboards.  My fingers fly over this like a great guitarist's over a fretboard.  What a difference a new keyboard makes.   I liked your post/blog a lot.  Take care.

posted by SlyCy on September 30, 2004 at 6:39 AM | link to this | reply

Writing is what I do

There is nothing else I do .. the only other thing I ever did was edit other writers

posted by beachbelle on September 28, 2004 at 5:57 PM | link to this | reply

true, i am a columnist and not   paid f or it, i enjoy the pleasure of  recieving readers reactions

ive been writing since i was a kkid and nobody ever read it but it took me a whilez to figure out that i only wanted  to write :) xoxoxoxoxox

posted by hugz_n_kisses on September 28, 2004 at 3:31 PM | link to this | reply

this is an excellent post

so true...............well done

posted by _Symphony_ on September 28, 2004 at 8:48 AM | link to this | reply

Good post. I just wrote that I don't take writing seriously. I am a paid

writer, but if I wasn't getting paid, I doubt I'd write anything but poetry and songs...oh, mustn't forget blogs.

posted by Ariala on September 28, 2004 at 8:16 AM | link to this | reply

Same here dear - it IS my identity.

posted by Hollee on September 28, 2004 at 8:13 AM | link to this | reply

True, Hollee.  I remember once shocking someone when I said I would call myself a writer over and above a wife or a mother, but it's true - I was a writer first and foremost and that will always be the strongest urge, so why deny it?  It's simply what I AM.

posted by Witty_Woman on September 28, 2004 at 8:08 AM | link to this | reply

Wiitty - you're right. Writer's write. They can't help it.

They could sooner stop breathing than stop writing.

posted by Hollee on September 28, 2004 at 8:07 AM | link to this | reply