Write on, Wednesday: What a Writer Needs
By Leslie Lindsay Even good writers need a break. Bad ones, too. Writing it hard work. You may beg to differ, especially if you are not a writer. “How hard can it be to sit and think and type?” you may wonder. Oh, but it is. Let me explain: To be a writer, one has to be creative. Then, one has to channel that creativity into something meaningful. Read: organized. So, to be a writer, one has to be organized and creative? Well, yes. At least to some degree. (And don’t those two qualifiers sound a bit like an oxymoron?). Exactly. A writer also has to have time. Time to ponder. Time to process. Time to live life. Time to be out in the “real world,” (because good writing is based upon experience, and not just assumption). A writer needs time to read. Because good writing is often the product of good reading (and points one and two above). But most of all, a writer must have time to write. A writer must also have …