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To the Writer Who Hates Writing
I was talking to another writer a couple weeks ago, and they launched into a diatribe that I hear far too often:
“Ugh, I have to start that new writing project. I hate that. Writing is the worst thing in the world; it makes me absolutely miserable. But we all have to do it, right?”
No. No, person-who-identifies-themselves-as-a-writer-but-hates-writing.
We don’t all have to do it.
Honestly, I’m never really sure what to say to this.
Writing is hard. Hitting deadlines is hard. Coming up with ideas and attempting to share them in any sort of cohesive and competent manner is hard. Sitting your ass in a chair to vomit up the shittiest first draft you’ve ever written, until the next shitty first draft you’ll have to write, is hard.
Things that are hard are not always the “most fun.”
So, sure. We all are human and trying to connect and commiserate with each other. When you find another writer out there, it’s like collecting your herd of unicorn friends that will understand your own special and unique struggles.
While the rest of the world pulls their “It must be nice to work from home all day in your pajamas; I wish I could do that” snarls, you have someone you can text and say, “But they don’t understand … having to…
