On Mar 24, 2013, at 12:31 AM, Randy Goodman <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's interesting Ray. I'm completely different and thought your were as > well about your writing. But again, mine has been a pure therapeutic and > amateurish hobby for 25 years and not a profession. I actually enjoy > creating, detailing and living through the characters. The love, joy, action > and tragedy ... all of it. > > As for pride, who wouldn't be proud of what you've accomplished. > > Reality never really is what you imagine though .. is it? I find it kind of > sad. > It's different for every writer. Each brigs his/her own particular gifts as well as personal baggage to the process. Gore Vidal once opined, "Writing a novel is like walking from Vladivostok to Paris, on your knees. When you finally reach Paris, you're back in Vladivostok." I find it nowhere near as tedious as he did. I get where he came from, but that was his experience, not mine. Similarly, the process of writing over the years has been therapeutic, but not because I was living vicariously through characters, rather while I was fighting depression the demands of my craft and the need to support my family did't permit me from crawling any deeper into that dark place than I did. I've known writers who seem to breeze through the process, and I know writers who "open a vein and bleed onto the page," so to speak. It's different for each of us. No one size fits all here. As a result, we also each take away something different from the process. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
