What’s the cost?
Hal on Jul 14th 2008
What is the cost of being a writer?
Everything has a cost. But what is the cost of being a writer?
Isolation? Yeah, at times isolation is a cost. Getting away from people so that one can concentrate on shaping words onto the page.
Loneliness? Yeppers. With isolation can come loneliness. But for the writer that sometimes is a double edged pen. What do I mean? Well, many writers I know, including myself, are loners. We like to be alone with our thoughts, with our prose, with our muse. But we don’t like to stay there. Once those cravings for isolation are filled and the loneliness begins to eat at us instead of we eating at it, we struggle outward looking for companions beyond those that color our pages.
Dollars? Hmm…. Well, so far for me this is definitely a cost. Sacrifice for the ability to craft words has in many ways meant letting go of a bank account that is healthy. Of course there is this hope that shines just over the horizon that my writing will supply that account with some added food.
Hmmm…. All thiese food analogies are reminding me that I need to dig up some lunch.
Those are three that come to my mind.
Can you think of any other costs?
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