Cennydd Bowles On Writing

Cennydd Bowles has written some short but beautiful thoughts On writing.

Writing is a jealous lover. Every hour I’m apart from her, she saddles me with guilt. Time is my new currency, a precious gemstone traded on rare occasions.

I like it.

As far as I can tell (and I basically have no idea what I am talking about), many writers seem to hate writing. Well, hate is probably not the right word. Writing is like working out at a gym. You simply have to get your ass up and go there. And to make things worse, you have to keep on doing so. You simply have to do it again and again and again and again.

Have you seen An Evening with Ray Bradbury? He says...

Write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you gonna write one short story a week, doesn't matter what the quality is, just to start. But at least you are practicing. And at the end of the year you have 52 short stories and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can't be done. It can't be done.

Writing is hard work. And - as always in life - those who love hard work will get rewarded.

Cennydd is a great writer and storyteller. Must be his Welsh genes or something :) ... Subscribe to his blog, if you haven't done so already.

Writing is a jealous lover. Every hour I’m apart from her, she saddles me with guilt. Time is my new currency, a precious gemstone traded on rare occasions.

Nice.

Who was it again, who said Oh, the burden and the task. That's at love's command?