Isn’t writing fun? I love to write and I’ve done it for a long time and I’m doing it now. And I still love to write now. I remember when I was young and at primary school I wrote so many stories, I suspect my teacher got bored reading all my stories. And he was amazed that I could write quite so much when I was so young.
But I’m not sure that I’m any good at it, I just like it. I’m never going to be the next Hemingway.
I went to university when I got older but I made a mistake. I studied what I thought would be good to get a job, not what I liked. But when I should have done was to study what I liked, writing. If I had it all again I’d study writing and see how far I got, though maybe it wouldn’t be too far. Writing doesn’t pay well though.
I have no idea if I would ever have become good enough at writing to make a living at it, but I would have liked to have tried. You never know unless you try, and I wish I had tried some time. I would have given it a really good go, and would have made a difference.
Would I ever have made money at it? Who knows?
Writing well can be learned I’m really sure. It’s a skill. It’s not something that you’re born with. It’s a skill that anyone, including me, should be able to learn. I think the most important thing is that you enjoy it and if you enjoy it you’ll keep at it till you’ve learned. Love it and you’ll learn.
But if you love it like I do then writing is just something that needs time to develop. It is a skill that you have to work on every day. I work on it every day. Right here, and in other ways.
So this is where I plan to write. It’s my website, probably no one will read it but me, but who cares, it’s all about me. I don’t care about that, I’m not writing it because I want someone to read it, I’m writing it because I like writing it. So if you’re reading it then you might be my first reader, after me. I like that, to think I have a reader. (more…)