The Write Stuff

I just finished reading an article by an author promoting her new book. If she is typical it makes me think it's a very good thing I've never persevered with getting my own scribblings published. This woman is BORING. Maybe her books are fascinating - don't know because I'll never read them. When she writes about herself she has nothing to say and spends 500 words not saying it. Is her real life lived through the books she pens?

Perhaps it wasn't my fear of rejection that kept me from being a published author. Maybe, instead, it was the subconscious knowledge that if I actually wrote for a living my day-to-day life would be of secondary importance and I wouldn't really be living it with my full attention.

I always thought I wanted to know more about the people who wrote the books that filled my obsessive need to read, but now I know. I don't. Sometimes they have put the best of themselves into their work and have nothing interesting left. Guess it was a near miss. One animator/publisher I submitted to actually encouraged me! I didn't follow up. Whew! Dodged that bullet.

I too have nothing to say and can spend 500 words saying it, but when my readers are bored they can just close this window (smile). I'll never know.