A title like that was hard to resist. It popped
up on Pintrest - a recent on-line discovery for me with lots of
things for creative people to explore. The link led to the poem So
You Want to be a Writer by Charles Bukowski an American poet who died in 1994.
The poem suggests that unless the words burst
out of you, unless you never sit at the keyboard puzzling about what
to write next or ponder how to turn your idea into poetry or prose,
you really should be doing something else.
Bukowski suggests that being a writer means
being chosen and for the chosen, writing is effortless. If it isn't,
the poem maintains, you're not a writer at all.
My heart tells me he was so wrong. My inner
critic isn't too sure.
What do you think?
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Heather Shaw
I hope he's wrong...
ReplyDeleteWhat about all those clichés about writing being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration?