Fulfillment?
Created: Saturday, 15 November 2014 20:34 | Written by Glen R Stansfield
I suppose like many people I have spent my entire life trying to find an answer. The problem has been I have never really known what the question was.
I think I finally know what the question and answer is for me.
For many years I have wanted to write a book. I didn't care what book, just a book. Some twenty odd years ago I wrote a page. I kept it to remind me how awful it was. But you know what? It doesn't matter. It was my page, and it was my first baby steps to writing.
At junior school we did something called 'composition', and I loved it. We wrote stories from our own imaginations. Wonderful times, and then we grow up. We dismiss the ideas from our childhood. Writing? Leave that to the professionals, the authors, the clever people.
I have finally realised those professional people were children, like we all were. They had to learn to write, they had their baby steps, they made mistakes, and still do. It doesn't matter. Mistakes are how we learn. As a new writer I am making them by the bucket full. I want to be good, but I am sure Michelangelo ruined a few ceilings in his time before the Sistine chapel, da Vinci painted a few horrors before the Mona Lisa.
What we do as writers is art. It is a creation from within us. Not everybody will like it, maybe no one will, but it is your creation. No one can take that away from you. Whether others think it is good or bad is irrelevant. It is yours.
I know I would like my books to be appreciated by others (for that read 'sell') but in the long run I don't mind if they don't. Why? Because I will have done something that no one else in this world will have done. They may have done something similar, but it won't be the same. And that is what makes art, and that is what makes each writer unique.
I suppose like many people I have spent my entire life trying to find an answer. The problem has been I have never really known what the question was.
I think I finally know what the question and answer is for me.
For many years I have wanted to write a book. I didn't care what book, just a book. Some twenty odd years ago I wrote a page. I kept it to remind me how awful it was. But you know what? It doesn't matter. It was my page, and it was my first baby steps to writing.
At junior school we did something called 'composition', and I loved it. We wrote stories from our own imaginations. Wonderful times, and then we grow up. We dismiss the ideas from our childhood. Writing? Leave that to the professionals, the authors, the clever people.
I have finally realised those professional people were children, like we all were. They had to learn to write, they had their baby steps, they made mistakes, and still do. It doesn't matter. Mistakes are how we learn. As a new writer I am making them by the bucket full. I want to be good, but I am sure Michelangelo ruined a few ceilings in his time before the Sistine chapel, da Vinci painted a few horrors before the Mona Lisa.
What we do as writers is art. It is a creation from within us. Not everybody will like it, maybe no one will, but it is your creation. No one can take that away from you. Whether others think it is good or bad is irrelevant. It is yours.
I know I would like my books to be appreciated by others (for that read 'sell') but in the long run I don't mind if they don't. Why? Because I will have done something that no one else in this world will have done. They may have done something similar, but it won't be the same. And that is what makes art, and that is what makes each writer unique.
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