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When A Writer Should Write
The internet seems to be made up of a multitude of writers who try to outdo each other by doing more of what everybody else is doing. The focus is on quantity rather than how to achieve quality. This makes sense in a world with a shrinking middle class, where most of us are poor and trying to figure out how to get by. Even the owners of the internet, who make their billions on what we pass through their portals, don't have to focus on quality as much as they do capacity. Better to get our 20 crappy books selling as efficiently as possible than to admit we could never write a great book, or that we could take the time out of our lives that would be needed for us to focus, concentrate, and find that deep well of inspiration a great book requires.
That old adage "Writers write", is the advice given to writers across the internet by all the so-called experts. Writing constantly is a good idea if you need to work on improving your writing technique, and your mechanics, but it won't necessarily help you write a great book. For some, it might, if it helps release the creative process.
For others, like me, and probably some small percentage of all writers, writing should take place when the inspiration, imagination, and the motivation, produce something in our heads worthy of being written down.
If you are busy writing all the time, you might have to pass on that great inspiration, that great idea, that next great book, because you'll be busy writing something else. Something mundane perhaps, because you're following the crowd, to find and create what everybody is telling you that you need to produce in order to get your share, which is supposedly just what you need.
Write, write, write. Get them blogs going. Produce, create a constant outflow. It doesn't matter what it is. Crap is fine, just so long as you stay busy piling it on, and piling it up.
There's another old adage. It's about the path less traveled that makes all the difference. Sometimes not following the crowd can be more rewarding. I'm glad I didn't write ten crappy books. I wrote a book I could be happy with instead. If I had written some of the chapters in it even one week earlier, they wouldn't have been nearly as good.
That old adage "Writers write", is the advice given to writers across the internet by all the so-called experts. Writing constantly is a good idea if you need to work on improving your writing technique, and your mechanics, but it won't necessarily help you write a great book. For some, it might, if it helps release the creative process.
For others, like me, and probably some small percentage of all writers, writing should take place when the inspiration, imagination, and the motivation, produce something in our heads worthy of being written down.
If you are busy writing all the time, you might have to pass on that great inspiration, that great idea, that next great book, because you'll be busy writing something else. Something mundane perhaps, because you're following the crowd, to find and create what everybody is telling you that you need to produce in order to get your share, which is supposedly just what you need.
Write, write, write. Get them blogs going. Produce, create a constant outflow. It doesn't matter what it is. Crap is fine, just so long as you stay busy piling it on, and piling it up.
There's another old adage. It's about the path less traveled that makes all the difference. Sometimes not following the crowd can be more rewarding. I'm glad I didn't write ten crappy books. I wrote a book I could be happy with instead. If I had written some of the chapters in it even one week earlier, they wouldn't have been nearly as good.
