The Word Cloud

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  by Vin 2 years ago

  I'm with you. I don't feel any particular compulsion to write. Sometimes I write like a bastard, other times I don't write for ages. Some people say their characters demand to have their stories told. Others are seized by a muse late into the night. Me, I write when I damn well please. I got a book published in 2002 and that completely changed my attitude to writing. I had a contract and a deadline to meet and suddenly it became a pain in the arse. It was like writing ten student essays. I remember going into Waterstones to see if it was on their system. It was - it even had an ISBN number. And I hadn't even written the thing. And there were the interviews, the fuckwit questions - I felt so on show.....it just felt so intrusive. So now I never want to be published. Posting stuff here is enough for me. And I enjoy it. So write or don't write - the world still turns.
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  by lennich 2 years ago

  Well yes, "the world still turns".
  
  I'm not trying to prescribe some sort of ideal; I just feel that I don't seem to fit the mould of the writer most likely to. Or even vaguely likely to.
  
  I do have a pathetic wish to be published, though, despite my logical view that the opinions of others should not matter.
  
  Once published I'd be quite happy to do a runner.