Are You a Writer? - Sean Platt
Are You a Writer?
by Sean Platt
I’m a writer. I spent over three decades unaware of this essential truth, but I’m ready to atone for my ignorance.
For some reason, it never mattered that I’d been reading at least a book a week since my eyes could string the syllables together.
I could never be a writer.
Writing, I believed, was a spectator sport for me. I imagined the process as long, tedious, and certainly not something I was capable of. I pictured the lone man, tugging on his beard and banging on his typewriter; a single swallow left in a tumbler on the table, waiting as reward once the thread of inspiration had been pulled from his mind.
That’s not me. I’m not creative.
by Sean Platt
I’m a writer. I spent over three decades unaware of this essential truth, but I’m ready to atone for my ignorance.
For some reason, it never mattered that I’d been reading at least a book a week since my eyes could string the syllables together.
I could never be a writer.
Writing, I believed, was a spectator sport for me. I imagined the process as long, tedious, and certainly not something I was capable of. I pictured the lone man, tugging on his beard and banging on his typewriter; a single swallow left in a tumbler on the table, waiting as reward once the thread of inspiration had been pulled from his mind.
That’s not me. I’m not creative.
posted by temporal at 9/17/2008
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