Some Thoughts On What Is Real Writing And Makes A Real Writer

Because the business of writing has skewed the art that is writing, leading many writers to misidentify themselves as artists when they are far from it.

• Writing is art, which makes it a personal form of expression.
• It is so personal that it’s only something you can create in this world.
• Through its personal nature, you’d different motivations to want to write and making money from it is the lowest priority.
• Writing only about writing is a paradox.
• If you truly love writing about writing, that’s fine, but keep it to yourself.
• The people who don’t keep it to themselves are the ones trying to make a business out of writing by teaching others how to write, thus creating a larger black hole that is the paradox.
• When naive and immature writers, however passionate they may be get sucked into the black hole, they lose their art, they lose themselves.
• You will never learn how to create art from people who write about writing because again, writing is personal. Their teachings will make you escape your heart and go to your head, where art is not created from.
• A writer weave tales and tell stories which they only can because they really, really want…