BEING A WRITER

Writing is all about sacrifice. You must be willing to sacrifice your time, money, sleep, and occasionally your sanity. You must be keen to spend a substantial amount of your time writing four paragraphs of detail about something as simple as an outfit, then you must be prepared to hit the ever ominous backspace button when those four paragraphs you’ve devoted yourself to become vexingly inconsequential. Writing is about give and take. Give your idea steam, let it flood through your fingertips across the keys then take a deep breath, delete it all, and start again. It is the perpetual dance of hands and keys, pens and paper, relief and frustration. It is the definitive curse and absolute blessing of being a writer.