18 october 2018
Time for some feels! I'm feeling alright. Lately I've been trying to write more, which feels good and is good, I believe. There are a few novels I want to write, and I hope a few more after those are out, and onward and upward until I've written so many that I can't help but make a few dollars out of the ordeal just for the sheer volume of work. Of course, I have to figure out how to finish one first...
Last night my 10yo was reading along while listening to an audio version of a book. I couldn't help but overhear it, though I was attempting to work on something else. I thought something that I've thought quite a few times: there are so many great novels, and great authors, that I couldn't possibly have anything to add to the world through writing. To snap myself out of that thinking, I went and read some Sherlock Holmes, which is closer to the writing style I'm aiming at currently. It helped.
Today I thought more about that experience. It wasn't unlike the experience I have every time I sit and read at the library, with walls of novels all around me. I have to remind myself that I am not attempting to write novels to gain the ephemeral praise of the world, but because I truly enjoy writing.
Are there any writers-of-novels reading this? If so, why do you do it? Is it joyful for you?