"The writer's secret is not inspiration — for it is never clear where it comes from — it is his stubbornness, his patience." —Orhan Parmuk.
When I was younger writing came easily to me. I would be able to stare at a blank screen and imagine it just transform into my masterpiece. A work of art that not only I but people could understand. It had gotten to the point where writing completed me and I even was managing to get compliments about it. A writer's hidden talent is always in his inspiration. So when people asked me how I could write sometimes so well I would often answer with it is not about the amount of reading I do or the research that I have done for my paper. Moreover, how I have lived my paper. I want to fill that blank slate of a bland canvas with experiences and words that bleed into the reader's heart. It is painful to be at a loss of words as they are the only median by which I can communicate my true self. There is something about those words that tend to open up the lock on my heart and find a way to make me live my own stories. I do not wish to sell my stories to make a good name or money. If I wanted that I could be a magician in a Vegas show. Rather I want to share my story with someone who finds solace in the agony of my stories.
Now there are a handful of people out there that believe that writing stories or papers are just plain simple and easy. It's not so impromptus when it is five in the morning and you are staring at a computer forcing yourself to write an excruciating 12-page lit review for a college level class. In a writer's words hide the struggle of ripping open the heart and pouring out their soul. They embody the agony of nonstop wrenching on the mention of how a reader will take his or her piece of art. Yet those same words include the hype of waiting for a positive review that can change a writer's life. The thrill of being able to say I have changed someone's life. A doctor is a doctor to save a life in danger. A writer is a writer to not only save his or hers but to inspire the world to save each other.
The four most dreaded words a writer could ever say to you are "I have writer's block." For some people, that is just claiming your inability to write. But for the writer, it is a whole other world. For the writer, that is pain on a whole new level as that is the snatching away of his or her voice that once could have made an impact on the world.
I write to believe. I write to spread my stories. But I also write to save my life and maybe someone else's someday. Write because you want to be heard not because you want to be known.
