Life And It’s Prohibits
What life expects from a writer
When you write, you write and travel to the universes that interest you way deep inside. It is never about the money or about the casual thoughts.
We often write the world that we wish to be. This means we have a choice and there is no need for life and it’s silly prohibits. Like if you want to fly for no reason, just to drink the sky or grabbing stars, put them into a blender, and hit “puree”.
It is YOUR choice. If anything, it is about what you provide to the original unoriginal world, and how you touch others, even if it is one person. It is hard to do though, you have to WRITE and write the beauty inside your head.
It’s like starving yourself, you have to eat somedays, that means money and work. Some lucky few can pay for their rent and bills with just writing. It isn’t easy, though there is a lot of work that gets pulled into being a writer and a lot have to do with your original profession as a writer.
It can also include working as an advertiser for your own book and being in social media as professionally active.
There is a lot, but as a writer, you might be satisfied with writing, editing, and publishing. But as a writer, you also have to be ready for the advertising, putting yourself out there, and above all, being in the public eye.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a writer in your own stead as a medium writer, blogger, book author, or even a bibliographer. You have to be okay with the public having opinions.
A writer is a writer who lives with the ego of “someone will read your work” or as an introvert, wanting the world to know their opinions. That is a writer in a narrow nut shell.
It, most of the time, is ego that can give you the push to be seen in the public. Or you’re just a writer with an unpublished manuscript, thrown from person to person, a friend or household member, that reads your work.
It is this, that, we use to sustain our own movement with dealing with the public or being in the public.
But ourselves, the inner writer, might be squeamish with having people read our work, I should know. My grandfather, who is very old-school but understanding, couldn’t understand many things in my writing. It didn’t matter when it came to my book plots, poetry, or essays.
It was just a bit too different, but upon annotation and delegation, did he understand. But I think it isn’t about the understanding that we want from our readers, we want them to have a connection. Sure, it might not be understandable in some ways, but it is what I wrote and I’m not changing it.
This is also very strong with my poetry, I hated when teachers just annotated it in what they saw fit. However, there is this thing called freestyle, that allows to me to write in any way I see fit.
I wrote it that way, so I’ll leave it that way.
Great poets and poetesses, like Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Homer, or Murasaki Shikibu, had little to none beta-readers. In fact, there was really no such thing as a beta reader back there.
But still, they became great legends of poetry and writing. So, why should I follow the same crowd, who change and change the hell out of their poems until they lose the meaning behind the poem, and still don’t publish their work?
Too many things there, that isn’t adding up. But I can understand the need to be perfect. To have a solid and most perfected poem in their hand, but still feel as if it is incomplete.
A teacher, professor, and fellow poet, who I’d often consult with, told me so many things I won’t forget.
“I see a survivor, not of the kind of physical kind, but of the emotional, spiritual, and mental.”
“A poet (or writer) crave perfection, they will always feel that their work is incomplete, but it is that crave that make them who they are, a poet (or writer).”
-Anonymous
It took forever for me to understand this. That was until I told him I just want them to leave it, my works, alone.
“You will find things in your past writing that you will want to change every so often. It is just a matter of when. So, don’t sweat it as much.”
-Anonymous
He just made things more understandable and it became clear that writing, or poetry, isn’t always about the writing to escape or to get paid, not even about being published. It is the simple fact that you wrote, and you wrote what made sense to you, and what you had envisioned. It just might take take a long while to get respected or understood for just that.
It also means that you have to understand it yourself.
