Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Not much to say since I've done almost no writing this week, barely any editing or even thinking about it in spite of being snowed in. My mojo has gone a little flat. I think having no internet was the best thing for me as I'm failing to wean myself away from my online addiction. I can piss away hours and it's beginning to really concern me. i'm going to have to start regimenting my time. I've done it before. I need to begin again or nothing will get cleaned or written.

Right now the new The X-Files is on (why in the name of god did they put it on after a damn play off game? SIgh) and it got me thinking about why we write. Of course telling our stories is a huge part of it. But if we're honest, most of us want to write something that passes into the cultural memory.

Who wouldn't want to write the next Harry Potter, Star Trek, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire SLayer, Star Wars ? Hell I'd take writing the next Twilight.

Most authors will never achieve anything like that. Even published authors who publish yearly will ever get to be that famous. Most will be in the midlist their whole career and that is not a bad place to be.

But who doesn't dream of being the top? Who wouldn't dream of having a theme song that sends a tingle down their fans spine every time they hear it, no matter how long it's been since they first heard it? To dream of their books being reread time and again, their characters like old friends to their readers?

I dream.