Being a Writer

Browsing around the internet and searching for pointers about building your image as a writer brought me to an opinion that we should sell ourselves as people we should say our why. Why do we write? Why do I write? What’s my cause?

But that there is a problem for me. I’m not sure really why I write. I just do. The pure thrill of writing is enough for me to press on.

Maybe I could say that I write because it’s fun. But you don’t sit in your room and write for twenty years with spars and rare payments just for kicks.

Although for me writing is fun in all its aspects (except when writing for someone else on demand) there is a deeper layer to it. You can call it obsessive behaviour but while writing I did other things, got my philosophy degree, and got my children and the tasks that go with them. And other smaller things and tasks.

But writing persisted. My characters were always there ready when I would get back to pick them up.

Maybe I gave myself so much time in developing my fiction verse because I wanted to see what I have to say that’s uniquely mine. That’s why I gave myself so much time to decide who I am and what I have to give to the world. I wasn’t interested in joining writing groups and courses because I didn’t want to learn how it is done, I wanted to do it myself and see what will develop from it.

And it developed into something readable and fun. Because I’m not disconnected from the world I live in and I do read and watch my writing isn’t something extraordinary and exceptional. It’s a straightforward story with a plot development and a resolution with action and romance. Nothing that should hang on the art gallery wall. Probably nothing that would win in a writing competition. But that’s because of me because I’m nothing special. And it’s a good thing.

I don’t have to be special to be read and listened to. My stories don’t have to be the best thing you’ve ever read. But they will take you on a journey you might remember for years to come.

In the end, I’ve discovered what is unique in my writing style, and what’s unique about me. It’s my perspective. My unique point of view. The like of which all of you have without even noticing it. And that’s what I bring to the table, my perspective.

I’ll take you on a journey to distant places not to see the strange and different world but to experience it through a new set of eyes, to see how it is to be someone else not just somewhere else.

That links to my philosophical musing about the true nature of things. Of which we can never be sure about anything. We can believe, hope, and argue but it’s never sure if is there anything supremely real and if it is what its nature is. That’s how I ended up with a perspective as the thing we can understand, achieve, comprehend. From that position writing is the best way for playing with models of reality and moral values. That’s why on my pages you’ll meet people struggling to get a grip on their reality and even the divine being will be presented just as one more perspective on things in which we can try to muster what would her/his/its perspective be.

Again I end up in deeper layers of thought but that is me before you always thinking ahead and beyond.