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Writers who know they are writers from a young age often spend half their lives denying that they should become writers at all. This may be common of many artists who do not inherit the industry.
Really good writers sometimes (instead of writing) will read everything decent under the sun and further convince themselves that they could never be a writer and everyone else already did it better anyway.
–It’s either that, or they convince themselves that they are already a better writer than everyone they’ve recently read, despite not having written anything new for months except lists of household tasks that also remain incomplete.
When reading as a writing-avoidance-technique, the writer often runs up against writing they are sure they could have created. Of course they didn’t create that writing, having been far too busy cleaning the cats’ litter boxes (or busy with some other anti-social pet or activity), creating hackneyed water color pictures (business a writer has no business doing), or drunk-dialing friends to leave voicemails about the next piece of writing which should be written (but probably won’t be), and which is based on another thing just read while avoiding writing.
Every writer looks forward to the day that the publisher sends that thin note saying, “Thank you. Your first book can’t look like this.”
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