Write, Right?

A well-known author, who often hits the number one slot on the NYT Bestseller List once said, in my hearing, that: “if they didn’t pay me to write, I wouldn’t.”  Well, pat my bottom and call me Sadie but that isn’t me.  I’d be writing even if nobody paid me. I have this compulsion to record what I think, to follow the thought – what if, to create.

When I was working for The Big Bank, and the Almost Big Bank, and even before that, I was always engaged in writing.  I wrote articles for my day job, wrote the company newsletters, did motivational speaking, writing  – you name it.  Everything I did involved writing. At the same time, I wrote from 2:00 AM until 6:00 AM every day on my own books.

Once, it used to be a struggle for me to find time to do 1000 words a day.  Now 3000 feels like vacation.  I would never have thought myself capable of 500 blog posts a year.  Now I do that, plus 3-5K words a day, plus articles, plus other writing assignments.

Sometimes, when I give myself the day off, I begin to squirm, and I’ve often wondered if it’s what an amphetamine addict feels like when he’s going off the stuff.  I end up writing something, long, long emails to friends, notes in my journal, notes about the book.

I can’t NOT write (pardon the double negative).

Bottom line: The more you write, the more you write.