Travel Blog - Latest Comments on writers writers everywhere https://thomasswick.com/blogs/tswick.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Lee [Visitor] in response to: writers writers everywhere Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:45:34 +0000 Lee [Visitor] c2165@https://thomasswick.com/blogs/ <p>Great post. National Novel Writing Month is certainly not helping. Not only can you too be a writer, but you can do it in just one month! </p> <p>You make a good distinction between the professional sphere and the private. I find writing such a therapeutic and intellectually challenging endeavor that I encourage others to try it. I do not, however, encourage the unrealistic and annoying dreams everyone seems to have of writerly fame. There&#8217;s a big difference between writing for oneself and subjecting the rest of us to one&#8217;s amateur attempts at a book.<br /> <br /></p> Great post. National Novel Writing Month is certainly not helping. Not only can you too be a writer, but you can do it in just one month!

You make a good distinction between the professional sphere and the private. I find writing such a therapeutic and intellectually challenging endeavor that I encourage others to try it. I do not, however, encourage the unrealistic and annoying dreams everyone seems to have of writerly fame. There’s a big difference between writing for oneself and subjecting the rest of us to one’s amateur attempts at a book.

]]> https://thomasswick.com/blogs/tswick.php/2009/09/23/writers-writers-everywhere#c2165 Eva [Visitor] in response to: writers writers everywhere Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:13:46 +0000 Eva [Visitor] c2164@https://thomasswick.com/blogs/ <p>Nice post, Tom. Reminds me of the Amy Tan anecdote from Book Passage a few years back - about the surgeon who approached her after a reading and said he, too, was going to write books once he retired. She supposedly replied: &#8220;That&#8217;s funny, because after I retire I&#8217;m going to cut people open.&#8221;</p> <p>I wonder what it is about writing specifically that makes everybody think they can do it professionally? You&#8217;re right about the standards, but there are plenty of terrible actors on TV too, yet nobody (or at least, nobody out of their teens) seems to think becoming a Hollywood star is simply a matter of deciding to do so.</p> Nice post, Tom. Reminds me of the Amy Tan anecdote from Book Passage a few years back - about the surgeon who approached her after a reading and said he, too, was going to write books once he retired. She supposedly replied: “That’s funny, because after I retire I’m going to cut people open.”

I wonder what it is about writing specifically that makes everybody think they can do it professionally? You’re right about the standards, but there are plenty of terrible actors on TV too, yet nobody (or at least, nobody out of their teens) seems to think becoming a Hollywood star is simply a matter of deciding to do so.

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