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Being a Writer
Sep. 15th, 2014 05:31 pmOriginally posted to the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
write_away community and copied here because I figured it might be relevant to some of my flist. Also because it's hard to find stuff there due to the lack of tags. Note to admins: If you don't allow users to create tags, create some yourself so the place is navigable.
Do you find that having a writer's temperament or talent affects your life in other areas, for better or for worse? Here are the ways it's affected me:
( Good, bad, ugly )
It's not always easy to like this part of myself. I still have a suspicion of artistic types as shifty and untrustworthy, no doubt through the lens of parental disapproval. Surrendering to this strange possession was like relaxing for the first time in my life. I still do my day job, and try to be productive in my stunted way, but I'm better aware of how this writing disease stretches its tentacles into every corner of my life. I've also come to acknowledge that the pages of my own creation are where I truly live, whether I like it or not.
(Edited to correct the name of the community, lol.)
write_away community and copied here because I figured it might be relevant to some of my flist. Also because it's hard to find stuff there due to the lack of tags. Note to admins: If you don't allow users to create tags, create some yourself so the place is navigable.Do you find that having a writer's temperament or talent affects your life in other areas, for better or for worse? Here are the ways it's affected me:
( Good, bad, ugly )
It's not always easy to like this part of myself. I still have a suspicion of artistic types as shifty and untrustworthy, no doubt through the lens of parental disapproval. Surrendering to this strange possession was like relaxing for the first time in my life. I still do my day job, and try to be productive in my stunted way, but I'm better aware of how this writing disease stretches its tentacles into every corner of my life. I've also come to acknowledge that the pages of my own creation are where I truly live, whether I like it or not.
(Edited to correct the name of the community, lol.)
