A Short Lesson on Writing

From interest to love, and love to obsession.

You improve and improve, and at some point, you don’t care any more about reviews, remarks, critiques, whatever.

You do and do, and do.

In the world of writing, there’re no masters, teachers, or students. Or maybe I should say, thee three roles aren’t separate entities, but combined.

You are the Student, the Teacher, the Master.

You teach yourself to write as you write. Overtime, you get better. Or so you think. You feel like a master when you completed a story, especially a book.

However, for the rest of the time, you feel like you’re the student (maybe a lousy student) and that’s alright, in fact, that’s good. The teacher is invisible during the entire process of pre-writing, writing, editing, but he’s there, always.

He’s you.