Writers Are a Funny Breed

Posted by Coral Andrews Sep 2, 2008

Jane Siberry once said that Writers are a Funny Breed

I am a writer because I choose to be. For me it’s like an addiction.

If I don’t write, then I don’t feel quite right and it’s always been that way for me.

The best way to become a good writer is to read as much as you can, and then read more.

Then write – observe life, and write what’s on your stream of consciousness mind.

And don’t let anyone stop you, or detract you. I still have that problem.

It’s a lonely profession - just you in a room with your fictional thoughts or non- fiction fact in all this mess and complexity of life and you have to discipline yourself.

A writing colleague of mine recently said that ‘high – culture is the new underground.”

He’s right. We are witnessing the dumbing down of society right now.

The media bombards us with thousands of images and concepts and “spin”. Now “reality” has been manipulated to become “surreality”

The only reality left for me is the text of the printed or digital page, because that is your private reality.

You call the shots – you put the pages and pieces of the literal puzzle together – and you get to stretch the part of the human brain that’s in danger of being extinct - the imagination.