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30 Days of Writing: #15
Sep. 14th, 2010 01:12 pm15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
It is an odd thing, but I don't have too many professional writers I greatly admire. I admire some of their works, but I can't say that on the whole I admire all of them. I admire Philip Pullman, and Libba Bray, and Frank Herbert, but only to a degree.
The writers I admire most? I admire the writers I know. I've seem so many of them grow from fledgling writers to full blown authors (because I've grown with them). I admire the members of the Buffalo Writers Group- those who still write, and still love it, and write more now than ever before. I admire Hugh, a fantastic writer with his own podcast, The Way of the Buffalo, and a subtle-yet-powerful style of writing that never fails to impress. Pete (who tagged me to do this meme!), who started the BWG, who has his very own web serial (www.bardsworth.com), his own book, his own dreams that cannot be deterred. I admire Sarah (The Smoking Quill ;D), whose exquisite writing and haunting ideas always stick with me.
I admire the writers who keep writing, who write because they love it, and write because they must. I admire the ones who succeed, and the ones who don't. Because we've all been there, haven't we? When we're seriously thinking maybe I wasn't meant to do this...
It takes strength to keep going, in the face of failure, rejection, false starts and lost drafts and mean critics and our own envy of other authors. But we do. Because we must.
Because we have stories to tell.
It is an odd thing, but I don't have too many professional writers I greatly admire. I admire some of their works, but I can't say that on the whole I admire all of them. I admire Philip Pullman, and Libba Bray, and Frank Herbert, but only to a degree.
The writers I admire most? I admire the writers I know. I've seem so many of them grow from fledgling writers to full blown authors (because I've grown with them). I admire the members of the Buffalo Writers Group- those who still write, and still love it, and write more now than ever before. I admire Hugh, a fantastic writer with his own podcast, The Way of the Buffalo, and a subtle-yet-powerful style of writing that never fails to impress. Pete (who tagged me to do this meme!), who started the BWG, who has his very own web serial (www.bardsworth.com), his own book, his own dreams that cannot be deterred. I admire Sarah (The Smoking Quill ;D), whose exquisite writing and haunting ideas always stick with me.
I admire the writers who keep writing, who write because they love it, and write because they must. I admire the ones who succeed, and the ones who don't. Because we've all been there, haven't we? When we're seriously thinking maybe I wasn't meant to do this...
It takes strength to keep going, in the face of failure, rejection, false starts and lost drafts and mean critics and our own envy of other authors. But we do. Because we must.
Because we have stories to tell.
