Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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.