Aug

31

Writing Daily

Filed Under On writing 

I read a statistic the other day that 60% of blogs are abandoned within the first month. This one was headed down that ignoble path, so I decided to give it a little reprieve with a brief post.

There is nothing to distinguish a writer from someone who is not a writer. The difference between a successful writer and one who is not, is surely measurable, but the difference between someone who writes and someone who does not is only determined by the number of pages that writer has produced.

The inclination I have is to talk about writing. The actual act of producing usable pages almost falls to a secondary position. To achieve anything of worth, this is an unacceptable approach.

Even if there was no real purpose for a post like this, other than to move the dates to something more respectable, at least the act of writing showed a commitment on my part to put down words. It becomes one more day of reprieves from being a person who does not write.

This quote makes the point I made in 170 words far quicker and more articulately:

“Talk isn’t work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn’t have in the morning.”  -Frederic Raphael

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