I adore just sitting down and writing every day
providing it's fiction...and sadly I don't get paid to write fiction...so I hate having to sit down and do the paid writing...but the money takes some of the sting out of it...

But writing fiction is incredibly self-indulgent - it's the opportunity to sit and tell yourself stories - something I've done all my life, generally by gazing out of a window instead of listening to the Physics teacher.

Although that bit of day-dreaming and musing is only a tiny part of writing and not really the work bit at all. The work comes in with all the redrafting and proper crafting which can feel like 'work' but it's satisfying when you finally finish a piece.


*EDIT* @ Mrs Liveinabin - yes, that's it precisely. Nuclear war and running out of tea. Oh, and more opportunities to waste time and generally procrastinate.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 18:51, Reply)