{"id":15917,"date":"2015-09-04T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=15917"},"modified":"2015-09-03T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T01:45:58","slug":"a-word-from-our-tired-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/04\/a-word-from-our-tired-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word From Our Tired Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FrankI hope you don’t mind if I waste a post by explaining to you why I don’t feel like writing anything. It’s funny. When I was out of town the other day, I was following the news on my phone. So I wrote up a whole schedule of articles for the next day in my notebook. Now, that’s notebook as in the thing that people from the 1950s would recognize. I still do a lot of writing by hand. But the point is that I wrote down what I was going to write once I got back home with all my standard tools like the keyboard I like, the trackball, and the computer set up the way that I like it.<\/p>\n

And here’s the thing: I got those articles written fast<\/em>. The hardest thing about writing articles is coming up with what to write about. But that isn’t exactly true. I have about fifty tabs open right now with things that I would like to write about. But I just don’t care to do it right now. Part of it is just that I don’t feel good. And that may have something to do with not eating enough today. So I’m cooking dinner — which I’m also not very excited about.<\/p>\n

But I’ll tell you: I have been feeling tired a lot recently. It hasn’t stopped me from writing like a madman. But I constantly have to fight the urge to crawl into bed with a book. And God knows, that would be good for me! What is the point of all this writing? That’s especially true of the writing here. I understand the point of the other writing: money. And I’m very keen on money right now. In fact, let’s talk about money — as it relates to the writer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing: you can be a really good writer — even a great writer. You can work really hard as a writer. And by that, I don’t mean it in the sense of, “Well, I’m thinking about my novel as a drink a beer and shoot pool over at the local pub.” In fact, the people around you can even be aware that you are a good and hard working writer. But if you aren’t making money, you are still pretty much a joke to them. It’s nothing personal. It is just people don’t know enough about writing (or almost anything) to judge what you do. So they go with commerce.<\/p>\n

For example, I’ll bet I could find two generic paragraphs: one each from Stephen King and John Steinbeck. They are good examples because they are both great writers and<\/em> popular. (Fun fact: it has not been cool to show disdain for King since 1981.) And I could show both of these paragraphs to a group of people, and they would not be able to identify which writer is which, even though they have pretty distinctive styles. So people don’t much get writing. I don’t blame them for it. But that’s the reason they fall back on every writer’s most hated question, “Yeah, but are you making any money?”<\/p>\n

But that’s one great thing about these other paying gigs. The fact that Frankly Curious<\/i> brings in about ten bucks in Amazon referrals each month, doesn’t really matter anymore. Now people have to accept that what I do here has value because other people are paying me to write the same kind of stuff elsewhere. And really, it isn’t that different — except in one way: those who pay me tell me what to write about. Which means writing here is a whole lot harder. I hope you appreciate it!<\/p>\n

Afterword<\/h3>\n

Having written this, I feel so much more energetic. And dinner’s almost done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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