Jeepers Creepers Meepers

But one in particular I'd like to share:

"I envy them the desire to want to become a writer. Wanting to become a writer must be so much easier than wanting to write."

-from Alembic, July 13, '05.

I think this is a very important distinction many of us don't bother making. I, for one, know that I will probably never be a successful writer, because I simply don't have the all-too-necessary compulsion to write creatively. Now, don't get my words all mixed up. I like to write, but mostly in a non-fictional fashion. I've always written, since I was a small child. I thought this meant I was going to be a writer someday. But when I went back to school for that English Degree, I learned that though I am very good at stringing words together, (and though I could and did get much better), I am really much better at literary criticism than literature. Alas, I'm not one of those people like Joe, or more famous folks like Virginia Woolf, to whom stories come full-fledged and ready to pen. I'd be perfectly happy to make a living teaching other people's work, writing articles on the side, doing book reviews, things of that nature. And maybe when I get older and much more mature, something that is literary and worthy of publishing will usher forth from the deep recesses of my brain.