Serious about writing?
Novelist Sinclair Lewis had been invited to Columbia University to deliver a lecture on the writer’s craft. He stepped up to the podium, looked out at the host of eager young faces, and asked, “How many of you here are really serious about being writers?”
Hands shot up across the lecture hall. Lewis Paused, and then said fiercely, “Well then, why the hell aren’t you all home writing?”
And with that he returned to his seat
And that’s the problem - keeping a blog - two blogs, and a web site… and writing at least two hours, usually more, a day. Writing should take first place: doing it and learning to do it better, every time.
Yet the days of the writer in his lonely garret, banging out a manuscript that he sends to his agent or publisher are long gone (for most of us)and unlikely to return. The internet is our new window on the world. When it works, that is - this place has had a slow and erratic connection since last May, died in April and is now arisen from the dead - and please don’t read any geeky symbolism into this: it’s return is more like that of a zombie, slow and stumbling and not at all predictable.
So what’s up at Mostly by Knight? Good and useful things I hope - for writers and everyone interested in the craft: this site should be about writing and publishing in these new and interesting times.
Coming up next, I hope to work on the theme here - this one is very good and I can recommend it to anyone keen on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the link is at the footer, below. I’m working on www.byknight.com, the web site that hosts these web logs - this one and Q’s Place (a journal for rambling, ranting and raving) and the idea is to keep the themes uniform so that all the editing hassle becomes simpler and I can focus on content. Which is what matters.
Q
admin @ May 7, 2009