Other Influences on Authors

Captured: 21 July 2024

So when you start to identify yourself as a writer you become accustomed to thinking about writing, about writing tools, about creative expression. The whole nine yards.

Somehow the allure of being an author takes over from anything else that you ever did. You forget about the former you and get on with the new you.

Then one day, you start looking at something that you left half done, back in the dim and distant past and you realise that there's something missing in your life. This author thing is important to you. But there's something you used to do that you need to do again. It turns out that it's part of who you are.

It's OK though. Finding those things, accepting how important they are to you, is important too. It's like finding that you're not just a one trick pony. This old skill is something real that you need in your life, get used to it, it's part of who you are. You're not playing hooky from school, you're not turning your back on the author thing, you're just remembering that you can do something else and it feels good. It makes the author thing more real, there's a new depth to what you can do.

Guess what. It will happen again and again. The writing will take on facets of the other real parts of you. Look forward to it. 🙄