That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.
If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that's already been created. You just have to read it and write it down.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.