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So You Want to Be A Writer?
Are you a dreamer, or are you deluded?
Maybe you find yourself lingering in stationery stores, stroking notebooks; or watching movies about struggling writers.
It’s always there, this dream, nibbling away at your psyche. Sometimes, without you even realizing.
Sometimes, after a few drinks, or during a vacation, when you allow your inner-voice to come out and play, you suddenly think you could be the next Hemingway after all.
You could be a writer!
But the next morning, your hangover, and your “sensible” self, say:
- It’s too late!
- You’re deluded!
- You need money!
- You have a job!
Well, let’s look at those statements, one by one:
It’s Too Late!
The novel Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes in the 1600’s, is about a Spanish lord who reads of chivalrous knights-of-old, and decides to live out his own “knightly story”.
When Quixote sets out on his quest, he is “nearing 50 years of age”, which, in those days, was pretty ancient.
When he wrote the novel, Cervantes himself was even more ancient, at 58.
