Writing – The Lonely Art

Posted by admin on October 22, 2008

Writing is a lonely art, very often a solitary effort carried out in hidden corners of the world.  A person gathers his or her thoughts and begins to put them down, alone where the judging eyes of others cannot confirm the internal criticisms.   At the end there is a manuscript.  A piece of paper or electrons that hold a bit of triumph – evidence of the author’s worth.

Now, perhaps, if the nerves can handle it this child of thought is borne to others.  Given away and they can make it their own, but only if it has worth to them.  Others can accept it, reject it, or try to change it.  They can toss it out to the daggers of public scrutiny.  If it is good it will hold up.  If it is good it will be accepted, cannonized, monetized, or simply printed.

To the the author the manuscript will always have worth.  Always that moment when it first appeared in thought, that special solitary time remains with the author.  That moment is what drives the author to write again.  That moment drives the author to continue to create in the vain hope of connecting that moment with another.

The work is both about communicating with another (the best authors consider their audience), as well as about enjoying the moment of creative inspiration.   In the end, writing is still a lonely art.

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