Low down dirty fame.
I admit it ...
I started writing when I was completely depressed. When I had nothing else to do than just sit back, relax, feel bad and wait until the hurricane slowly passed by (luckily there were few casualties).
I thought I was an exception ... but a lot of people, contemporary writers, like us, seem to start writing in periods of heavy disarray and often that's an understatement. After years of conversation, it's the least I can say.
Why am I writing this? To name a few? Far from, my sense of discretion is too large for that. But the conclusion seems very interesting to me, though I don't know why or how to explain the phenomenon.
That however doesn't mean I don't want to understand.
I started writing when I was completely depressed. When I had nothing else to do than just sit back, relax, feel bad and wait until the hurricane slowly passed by (luckily there were few casualties).
I thought I was an exception ... but a lot of people, contemporary writers, like us, seem to start writing in periods of heavy disarray and often that's an understatement. After years of conversation, it's the least I can say.
Why am I writing this? To name a few? Far from, my sense of discretion is too large for that. But the conclusion seems very interesting to me, though I don't know why or how to explain the phenomenon.
That however doesn't mean I don't want to understand.
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I like this beginning, Lena: "I started writing when I was completely depressed." It caught me right away. The dryness of the tone is lovely paired with the darkness of the subject. -- *Q
Do we need to know why or how to explain the phenomenon? Or can we just let it be? We don't stop trying to understand, no, but having nothing else to do than just sit back, relax, feel bad seems like a good time to start writing, yes.
Strong, compelling voice I want to listen to Lena. I like this. *
"We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness"
--Wordsworth
Q, Kathy, J. and Bill: thanks! Your comments are stimulating, for a subject that seems so taboo sometimes. Thank you!
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:-) Kathy
and touché Bill!