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Originally Posted by phenomshel
But I've seen interviews with writers, and read blogs of writers that insist that writing IS just what you say it shouldn't be: "some terribly difficult occupation that wrenches the very last drop of energy from your soul." They seem to do it in spite of that, even though they aren't getting rich. Or at least from what I can tell, they aren't getting rich.
I get what you are saying, and the point you are trying to make, I really do. But I think the problem might be that you're in a definite minority. Most artists, writers, potters, etc. and so forth love what they do (I hope, anyway), even if it's difficult, but the difficulty (or labor of love - think labor as in childbirth) is ameliorated by the remuneration.
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I think that attitude is a hangover from a million creative-writing coaches influenced by their own torturous journeys, and possibly a lot of backwash in the wake of Hemmingway and others. I was exactly the same until I discovered the secret of writing a few years back. Now writing is fun, its not torture, its not hard, its like when you learn to play a guitar, at first your fingers are sore, you can't bend them into the shapes, but after awhile you relax and forget entirely that you're playing, you're just enjoying the music.