- just because you write, doesn't make you a 'writer'. waxing nostalgic over pretty pictures someone else took does not give you license to empathize with hemingway when he said 'writing was easy, all you do is sit down and bleed' or however that quote goes. especially if your grammar is awful.
- you can't be a writer if you don't write. duh.
now, here's the thing: i don't write. like, ever. i write really funny text messages sometimes, and occasionally blisteringly witty (and eternally humble, obvz) facebook status updates, but, as many a deluded tumblr-er has found before, these things will never elevate me to hemingway status. i'm not the biggest hemingway fan in the world, as an aside, he's just a well-known and respected name. i mean, he was a cool dude, i just haven't read many of his books is all.
what was i saying? oh yeah... i should write more. because even if i never get paid to do it and no one hangs a poster of my somber headshot above their bed, i can at least say, in truth, that i am a writer. because i write. just like all those pretentious tumblrers that i hate so much. goddamn it.
lesson of the day: there is just no winning in this life.
1 comment:
I like your writing! Amusing blog you've got here. Found it when I was researching "cliched expressions" of all things. So glad to have crossed your blog's path.
I'm a big Hemingway fan. Try The Sun Also Rises. One of my fave books ever.
Also, if you get the chance, hit my blog up and give it a follow? Lots of things pertaining to novels, and what it's like trying to write.
Thanks!
Holly
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