If you're not writing... you wish you were

It’s Thursday! You’ve almost made it through the week! Which means I’ve almost made it through the week, too… which is a very good thing. It’s been a long week. But Mynidd is almost done with edits, and it’ll be off to my advance readers very soon. That’s a very good feeling, believe me.

Which brings me to the topic I picked out for today, one that is really in my heart during weeks like this, times like these. The life of a writer isn’t always what we want it to be, but you know, we’re dreamers. And that’s a good thing, too. 

Know what writers do, all the time? 

We spend more time writing than we do anything else… or, we dream of a day when we can.

Now, for me, writing is my career. Well, one of them. I’m a writer, an editor, a blogger, a social media manager and marketing specialist… which all equates to the fact that I write pretty much all the time.

But you know, it wasn’t always like that. And that kind of writing that I do all the time isn’t always the kind of writing I want to be doing. It’s not like I’m sitting at my computer, writing my books day in and day out. Just ask my betas. They’re getting Collide as I write it, and right now, that means it’s not coming very quickly. I’ve been so deep in edits that I haven’t had as much time to write. I’ve been so busy with my new position at RAD that I haven’t had nearly as much down time as I used to. Which means I find myself wishing I could write more, but at the same time, glad that I get to write as much as I do.

As writers, there’s nearly always a storyline running in the backs of our minds. It doesn’t really matter what we’re doing, we’re always thinking about story. And when you’re thinking about story all the time, you really want to be able to sit and write that story down.

Life doesn’t always let that happen, unfortunately.

As writers, we dream of a time when we can spend a whole week in a cabin in the woods or holed up in a beach house, doing nothing but writing, day in and day out. We envision ourselves being able to sit and write for a living… while in reality, we often struggle to find the time in our daily schedules to even write five hundred words a day (that’s my new goal, by the way—remember when I used to write 4,000?!).

There was a time, not so long ago, when I spent more time writing than I did doing anything else. If anyone asked me what I was doing, the answer was always writing. It was the thing I loved to do, the thing I focused on the most, the thing I never wanted to give up.

And I still won’t give it up, but maybe I won’t write as often as I used to, and I’ll dream of writing, remembering the time when I used to write so much.

Because I’m a writer, and if I’m not writing, I definitely wish I was writing.

So do you, I’d guess.

[love]

{Rani D.}