Writing is not an end point but a journey. You never really arrive. Writing is a process. Someone called my short article on journal keeping (which can be found on http://www.siggyscafe.com) a ‘blurb’.
That might be but it took me a lifetime to write. Several decades of journal keeping. My wife also did a masterful job of editing it.
I am well aware I will never write the great American novel. I simply am not motivated that way. I simply want to write something and get out as quickly as possible. I am conscious of that. I strive for simplicity and clarity. I accepted that a long time ago.
The longer pieces I have written in my lifetime were very difficult for me to do. I have written only a few short, short stories. I find it interesting that a fellow writer who has the opposite problem — keeping the word count down — recommended that on some longer pieces she wanted to hear more detail.
Maybe I need to take her advice. It certainly would stretch me. There really is no point in which you have arrived as a writer although you might consider publication of a book one.
At every point you write, you whole past is impacting your writing. Writing is always a process and journey. Otherwise you are constantly repeat (constantly repeat (or) are constantly repeating) yourself.
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