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Random observation
Apr. 2nd, 2008 02:27 pmWhile perusing the f-list, I came to realize something, something that made me boggle for a moment.
You people are some of the hardest working folks alive. To the outside world, writing doesn't look like heavy lifting from the outside, but it is. I know it is.
The boggling comes in when I realize what else is going on in your lives WHILE you're writing.
The things you've done are amazing, especially when I consider the wordcounts and progress y'all make, given that I know lots of you have one or two (or three!) other jobs/careers/professions, children and/or small animals, serious health conditions or loved ones with serious health conditions, financial turmoils, marital woes, ongoing higher education, and lots of other things you just have to/want to get done.
Some of you have at one time or another had all of the above or at least some combination of several of the things I listed (and a few I didn't).
And even better? You don't just churn out the word counts, you churn out the good stuff.
So, don't ever let anyone call you lazy or say you have it "sooooo easy". Because I'd like to see those same people go through all the things you've gone through and may be going through right now and manage to come up with an award winning novel or short story or poem.
I'd like to see people come up with a decent paragraph after they have the days some of you guys have had. Or hell, the *years*, even.
It makes me feel supremely challenged to take the good fortune I have in my life and make something really spectacular of it. I better. Otherwise I'm going to end up looking like Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel compared with you all.
You people are some of the hardest working folks alive. To the outside world, writing doesn't look like heavy lifting from the outside, but it is. I know it is.
The boggling comes in when I realize what else is going on in your lives WHILE you're writing.
The things you've done are amazing, especially when I consider the wordcounts and progress y'all make, given that I know lots of you have one or two (or three!) other jobs/careers/professions, children and/or small animals, serious health conditions or loved ones with serious health conditions, financial turmoils, marital woes, ongoing higher education, and lots of other things you just have to/want to get done.
Some of you have at one time or another had all of the above or at least some combination of several of the things I listed (and a few I didn't).
And even better? You don't just churn out the word counts, you churn out the good stuff.
So, don't ever let anyone call you lazy or say you have it "sooooo easy". Because I'd like to see those same people go through all the things you've gone through and may be going through right now and manage to come up with an award winning novel or short story or poem.
I'd like to see people come up with a decent paragraph after they have the days some of you guys have had. Or hell, the *years*, even.
It makes me feel supremely challenged to take the good fortune I have in my life and make something really spectacular of it. I better. Otherwise I'm going to end up looking like Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel compared with you all.
