Scribbling in the Silence

Today PBWriter had an interesting post. I'll let you read it for yourself. Anyway, at the end she quoted an inspirational comment that she wrote on her bookmark and asked us what we'd write on our bookmarks.

At least for today, I'd write this: "Put your writing in your life and your life in your writing but don't make your writing your life."

I think that about says it all as far as where I am mentally and emotionally as it relates to my writing. I try to put some of my life experiences and feelings in my writing to, I guess, make my characters feel more real to me. And I try to implement my writing into my life somehow, be it sharing what I wrote that day with my wife, or talking to my friends about a plot problem I have. Everyone in my life knows I'm a writer but I sometimes tend to be very private about what I'm writing until I'm done. I'm trying to be less so, but it can be a struggle.

But I don't want to make writing my be all and end all. I have other interests in my life as well and I want to make time for them. It can be a difficult struggle to balance all those priorities but I think it's worth the effort. If I became a published writer, I wouldn't discard all those other interests so why should I now just because I want to be published? Either it'll happen or it won't. Que sera sera.