The Writer's Investment
I keep forgetting that being a writer--if I want to be a good one--needs to be just as investment as any other professions. I need to really focus on it, to put time and effort into it, to think consciously about it. For example, I realise that one of my weaker areas is painting a sufficient sense of 'place', and I've always struggled with how to do that better, but it seems obvious what the answer is now. I need to gather the funds to travel to places I imagine my story is set, and really soak in those places, take pictures, wander. So a writer needs a job too. A writer can't just sit, poor, writing. No, a writer needs money to fund his ability to write, just as a lawyer needs money to fund his ability to be a lawyer (i.e. for research books on the law, etc.). Furthermore, there are other things. I need to be a more attentive personality, if I want to be a good writer. I need to really focus on the phenomenology of being a human. I think I might start taking more pi...