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Writing is a drug. Embrace it!
- Kenny A. Chaffin
Maybe my new motto, eh. Most every writer has ‘resistance’ but I think part of my personal ‘resistance’ is fear of addiction based on my own personal past issues with drugs and other addictions.
I just heard an interview with Thomas Keneally on NPR he is the author of Shindler’s Ark basis of the movie Shindler’s List who has a new novel out “The Daughters of Mars”
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/20/213468...-the-great-war
The audio here in a few hours they say:
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/24/214846...ghters-of-mars
Interesting comments from him at the end of the interview about what “Shindler’s” did for him. Basically he said it helped the publishers to sell his books and that yes he has always written to earn a living but the reason he writes is the ‘rush’ that he gets when he gets a sentence, a paragraph, a scene, etc right. That is the reason to write.
From the interview:
“On the effect of Schindler's List
"Well, it gave a new visibility to my work, and I think it helped, the fact that publishers can have that as a banner ... to put on the cover of my books is a great help. When people used to thank me for writing Schindler's List, I would be abashed, because I'd say to them, but I did it for the normal novelistic reasons, the normal professional writer reasons: I wanted to make a living. Above all, of course, when you fall in love with a story, you don't write it for reward, but you sometimes, irrationally, get rewards. And I used to say to them, look, I've been rewarded for writing this, and I'm therefore astonished that, coming from such venal origins, my endeavors could produce in your family this or that effect."
Looks like a good book – The Daughters of Mars – too!