Apples and Apples

[averseortwo]

Many of the people I know who wanted to be writers when we were in high school have since gone on to major in journalism, decide to be teachers, do all kinds of related and unrelated professions. Some of them are genuinely happy and feel a calling toward their field. Some, however, are afraid of being writers, afraid of the uncertainty and the

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Call to Word

[teknik_spaz]

You should see the movie Quills. It is about a call to writing so strong he even uses his own crap when he doesn't have a quill or ink. Now that's passion!

[absolutleybill]

I'd like to finish my greensboro piece...perhaps once I assemble all of the loose poems you'd take a look at it.

You also reminded me of a novel I started on a few years ago...I wrote a few short chapters and I think the idea was to have it be about two nameless lovers and it would, somehow, be about every relationship that ever was.

You, my dear, remind me of being lofty.

[liliha]

i never tell people "i'm a writer" with any confidence.

perhaps because i don't write fiction, i feel no entitlement to that designation.

but i am a writer. i could make my living no other way than putting pen to paper or words to type.

maybe the difference is that you translate your own voice, and i translate other's voices?

[averseortwo]

But Julian Barnes says that every biography is an autobiography. Translating others is a way of translating yourself, I think.