Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.