What do you need to be a writer? retry

So writing… how about that? What’s the point?

I wonder about that, judging what I write against the sheer volume of all that has been written already and wonder "do I have anything to add to that?" The answer is "yes I do" which is a little egotistic, but when you get down to it if you do not believe in yourself who is going to? I have been down that road looking for some one else to believe in me, and using that as my reason… which was dumb. I conclude that if you can not believe in yourself, then others will not be able to really believe in you either. There is nothing to hang on to.

So there is that in my works.

The trouble is that I still want to tell a different story, the story that comes before that belief in the self… I remember staring out through wild feral eyes at this world (which is not a lot different now) with a burning hatred… a soul of destruction… and the FEAR. Fear is like fire and burns with an intensity that leaves little behind but ashes… fear is a living cremation.

Poetry is a good form for writing that because it is very hard to describe fire and fear in a way that makes sense to those who may not have shared the experience in the same way. Most people learn the art of not being fearful, or more correctly full of fear… some how they managed to open a value and let it out. I wonder what might be different had I learned that. Would I be me? If not, who would I be?

So there is that in my works too.

What do you need to be a writer?

So there it is, the question. What does one need to be a writer?

I suspect that a story is it… maybe access to a rock… a lamp? How about one single reader?

That is the easy and cute answer. Oddly, cute comes close to the truth, but I shall pass that over for the time being. Mostly you are a writer, and the rest is just how your are a writer. The stories are there and they flow like blood, so it helps to be wounded or have stigmata, but it is not essential.

This “flowing” explains why at the conclusion of writing a story one tends to feel drained a little bit.

Another useful device is a community like Pan Historia where you get to see what your work looks like, and how people receive it.

On Line Books

Okie dokie… so I am a poet of sorts and I write on-line books… quite naturally that leads to the question - What is an on-line Book?

It is free to start with… which is pretty good. Sure, I want to publish on paper, and I will… that much is already assured… and then people can pay to buy the book. In the meantime I write online books.

Unlike a novel poetry does not appear in order… often the poems come flying out in a jumbled mess and they have to put in order. One can do that on their word processor, or one can find a place like Pan Historia and create in the warm confines of a great community and have at one’s disposal amazing graphic abilities.



That is what I do. I write at Pan and then over time collect the works and see what I have. On-line books... pretty damned cool!

My Creations

The truth of our lives has always been fiction.

Which explains all the insanity that goes around… because when you start to believe your own lies… that is insane. This makes life as a creative writer hell, because the characters we create come alive in our heads and are constantly telling you their stories so that you will write them.



Thank the Gods that there is a place where you can not only get those characters out of your head, but you can put them in homes so that you can go visit them.

One of mine at Pan Historia...