Real Writers.

[naamah_darling]

This will be long, and for that I apologize. It will be angry and profanity-laden, and for that I will not apologize. I'll also say that you can link to this if you want to, no problem.

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[lizblackdog]

/so much applause and and YES THIS

I actually am a lazy-ass writer as well as crazy so a lot of this doesn't quite apply to me, but OH SHIT YES. Thank you for being so damn good at this and using the spoons to do it.

[cincoflex]

Heh, I get the 'you're not a real writer because you don't have a degree in English, or Creative Writing or any of the language-related arts' sometimes. And I call bullshit on that too, because I can't think of anyone who's ever demanded to see a writer's degree as proof of their vocation. Writers write, how and when they can, period. You put words on a page in a way that connects your inner world to everyone else--writing.

And you do GOOOD writing; this I know!

[tlatoani]

I doubt Poe wrote every day.

[wetdryvac]

Every inch as much a writer as me: Yup

[kyra_neko_rei]

Ha, yes! I have said that "writing is sort of like eating eggs for me" because I will go weeks without eating a single one, and then devour a dozen in the space of a few days.

Three weeks of not touching any of my writing files beyond tacking on an occasional sentence or jotting down part of a conversation I want them to have three-quarters of the way through the book, and then I'm reading a book-sale find about this Intrepid 1920s Adventuress To Whom Mysteries Happen and thinking, hey, a character like this would fit into my steampunk/magic universe . . . oh hey, the main character's love interest is currently sitting at home waiting for her girlfriend to come back from school, I'll bet she'd love to hop on a train and go off adventuring! New concurrent series! And I'm off like a shot again.