Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The inpenetrable fog of the blog






















Calvin-Writing above. Looks like Calvin could have been a blog guy at heart. A good suggestion if one thinks that they are a writing is to write. Salesmen sell, teachers teach, good husbands do, and writers write. So I "do" write some but not nearly enough to make a lot of difference. Subjects are a challenge sometimes. Not to think up but to be of interest to anyone else. A week or so ago I meet two different people who labeled themselves as writers. I asked what they wrote and one said short stories and the other about the same. Both had different types of stories they liked. One had shared his most recent with the other one. I asked if they had been published. Neither had. Both had tried. Both had been at it a long time. The reality is that writers write but they are not necessarily read. Reading of course matters, and that is why you do it I like to say but then writing may or may not if reading is what it takes. Then again all you have to to write is to do it.

2 comments:

Katie Nelson said...

well said! :)

gmagower said...

We loved Calvin. We used to have whole books of them. I am going to look them up. He says it like it is. :) V.J.