PASSION seems to be the one aspect all writers share who are published or who will be published. Otherwise we're very unlike. We come in all genders, ages, ethnicities, classes, and socioeconomic statuses. We begin writing stories as early as kindergarten, as late as the middle of our lives.
At least that's the impression I get from reading several dozen interviews over the past several months. They are in a collection of middling-short interviews originally published in Publisher's Weekly. It's titled Writers and Their Craft and is available at Amazon and B&N or at your local library. Some of the writers are authors of bestsellers. Others are important because of their literary success.
Although "passion" may be a better-sounding way to say "obsession." At least from my experience, writing a book is something that I MUST do, rather than merely want to do. (Though there is that motivation too. Writing for me is like eating, something pleasurable in its own right.)
What other aspects do we all share? Not just SOME of us share, but ALL share?
At least that's the impression I get from reading several dozen interviews over the past several months. They are in a collection of middling-short interviews originally published in Publisher's Weekly. It's titled Writers and Their Craft and is available at Amazon and B&N or at your local library. Some of the writers are authors of bestsellers. Others are important because of their literary success.
Although "passion" may be a better-sounding way to say "obsession." At least from my experience, writing a book is something that I MUST do, rather than merely want to do. (Though there is that motivation too. Writing for me is like eating, something pleasurable in its own right.)
What other aspects do we all share? Not just SOME of us share, but ALL share?