Dilemma & Lifestyle of Writers

Many of you out there believe that the job & lifestyle of a writer is easy. We Sit-around all day; all week and suddenly we write something and voila! job’s done. Well! You wouldn’t be wrong because that’s how it looks from your side of the wall. Let me paint you a picture of our side of the wall.

Yes! We writers sit around all day all week but that’s just our physical posture, but in truth, our mind is going nuts with recurring questions all the time. What should I write about? What could be the title? What could be the matter/ content? And trust me it’s no piece of cake. Even when you’re doing something else, a bug crawls up your brain and says “Hey! This seems nice I could write about this. Hell! I am gonna write about this.” But by the time you actually start writing it’s all gone.  What seemed like a nice topic to write about now seems stupid.

See! The thing is writing isn’t much of job for us. It’s a habit; a hobby; a necessity; an addiction; or may be even an itch, an itch that we can’t scratch. The only thing is we made a profession out of it so we can do what we like and still be able to pay the bills. We are diversified to; we are authors/novelists, content-writers, copy-writers, columnist, blogger and much more. Shit! We can even form up a word and give it a definition. You know why? Cause every piece of paper you read is in one way or another written/edited/formatted by a writer. We all different types of writers have our own issues to deal with. For Author/Novelist, it is the sheer pressure of completing the novel, and it’s not just about writing what’s in our mind it’s more about writing the story in a manner that would be clear in the mind of the reader. Authors spend most of their time working on a book and there are times when the book that they finished isn’t good enough for publishing, sadly they never transform from manuscript/draft to a published book and there goes their effort down the drain. For bloggers, the main issue is what to write about? And how to start it? We even have to re-think titles of the article over and over again because that’s what catches the attention of the reader in the first place. For content and copywriters, the most difficult part is to figure out the matter because they know what they have to write about they just have to figure out what it is they could write about it. So, if you think writing is easy then think again, and if you reach the same conclusion again then start writing something. And yeah it’s true anybody can be a writer, just as anybody can be anything all they gotta do is put their mind to it.

In all honesty, most of us I mean like 99% of us writers are in fact writers by choice, it’s not that we couldn’t do anything it’s just that we didn’t want to. And like said our lifestyle is hard but it ain’t bad and I mean at all. It’s pretty freaking amazing. We do work by choice and work of choice. We have flexible hours of work and the timeline of delivery is somewhat flexible too. Shit! We can even sit around all day say we are thinking!!! Waiting for inspiration!! We win most of our arguments except when there is a woman on the other side of the argument, we are able to profoundly serve sarcasm with pure intent of pleasure , and when someone is mad at us we know what to say too.

And most of all we do what we like to do, we do it whenever we want to do it and from where ever we prefer to do it. Even as a writer I can’t put it in words but it gives an amazing sense of feeling when your profession is your hobby.  I mean, imagine! You are sitting on a roof or a garden close to nature or even your room where you feel comfortable not just physically but mentally too and a cup of coffee on the side and music playing and all that mesmerizing stuff and this is where you actually do what you like and it even earns you money. It’s like earning money for living. And To all fellow writers: When I was drafting this article I had an idea of creating our own legit network. So I built a group on Facebook & LinkedIn which I will closely monitor so as to filter unwanted and unwelcomed elements out. Join me if you want. It’s called Global Writer’s Network.