“You have to live to write.”
The thought struck me in the wee hours yesterday as I was getting ready for bed, tired from grappling with a flaky WordPress site to change the themes of two of my blogs there.
And I thought so many writing teachers must have drilled that into their students’ heads.
The next day I googled it: “You have to live to write.” And this one link, a blog entry, got my attention. It’s titled – what else? – “You have to live to write.”
It’s the other thought that struck me the other night that’s harder to keep doing: “You have to write to live.”
That, of course, applies to people like me who have chosen to write for a living. It’s not very lucrative in this courtry, though once in awhile a one-shot, big-deal project may come along.
On another level, though, I think I’d still be writing even if I could make money doing something else.
Anyway, as my precocious 11-year-old daughter would say: “Deal with it.”
10 August 2010 • Tuesday • 21:36 at 21:36
Do not plan your life or it would become dull. Live one day at a time….
22 August 2011 • Monday • 9:55 at 9:55
You’ll always be a writer, no matter how you earn your living. You can’t live if you can’t write.