Insecure Writers’ Support Group

 

Insecure Writers’ Support Group

 

IWSG is the brain child of Alex Cavanaugh. It is a place for all writers, of whatever stripe, to express themselves. This month’s co-hosts are  Patricia Josephine, Diedre Knight, OlgaGodim, J. Lenni Dorner and Cathrina Constantine. See other posts here                                                                 

The optional question this month is ‘If you ever did stop writing, what would you replace it with?’

The question assumes that the reader spends a good deal of time writing. Taking it to its logical conclusion, that is largely true, if one counts diary entries, tutoring a grandchild, writing plant labels, but actual good, honest, down-to-earth creative writing? (Can creative writing be ‘down-to-earth’?)

Technical writing, explanatory leaflets, recipes, instructions, court orders, musical manuscripts, lesson plans, love letters, emailed complaints to the local authority are all legitimate forms of writing but are they what we mean by ‘writing’?

I digress, as usual. If I ever stopped writing I would spend time walking the dogs, playing the piano, reading, doing jigsaws and cross stitch, bird watching, stargazing, taking photographs, but I do all those things anyway. So there you have it – I don’t spend much time writing, at least, not as much as I could.

 I admire those disciplined souls who dedicate their lives to their craft and understand that that is why they publish their work while I daydream and dabble at the edges of what would undoubtedly be a stellar career (insert ‘wink’ emoticon) I’ll never stop writing and thinking about writing and dreaming about writing.