If there’s one thing I’ve always wished I could do more of, it’s write. I wrote a lot growing up, even wrote a lot of my own essays at one point, but those days are long gone. The past few years have been a bit of a letdown, but I have hope to get back in the game.
In the past, I have only written for myself. I wrote to help me get through my days. I have written my best stuff for my own use. I have written for friends, family, and some publications. I have written for newspapers, magazines, and books. I have written for my blog. I have written for the blogs of other friends. I have written for movies, books, and music. I have written poetry. I have written books. I have written short stories.
There are lots of people who are in the world who do not have a lot of time to write. If you have that time, and you want to contribute to an online publication, it is generally a good idea to find a way to make time for writing.
But writing for an online publication must be something you’re passionate about. It seems that most writers write primarily for one reason or another. It seems like that’s a mistake. It seems to me that there are lots of writer’s who do great work, and other people who write for money. If you can write well for money, great, but if you are great at writing for your own pleasure, great.
Writing for an online publication means that youre not really writing for yourself. In fact, you might be writing for a certain website you feel that they value you as a writer. If their readers enjoy your writing, you’re in.
We’re not saying that money and fame are synonymous. We’re saying that a writer who does well for money can be great. It’s not that they are all good. It’s that they are good at what they do and they understand the value of what they do. We can’t tell you to write for money, but to write at your own pleasure. Or you can write for money and still write a great story.
In the same vein we should also not tell you to write for money, but to write for what you can do for the people who love your work.
The writer we spoke of, Thomas Pynchon, was a great writer. He wrote a lot for the money and made his money, his success in life, much easier. He did this by writing for what he felt was right and the right reason for his life. He knew what he wanted to write about and he knew what he could write about and he tried to write it.
But he also wrote about some things that were not right for him because he didn’t feel he was good enough to write about them. When he wrote “This is not a story” he knew that it was not a good thing to write it, but he felt he had to because what he wrote was important and he thought it was important. “This” was just his way of saying that there was more.
It sure is. I feel the same when I read a book that is very well-written but that I know isnt a good idea to read. To me it is the kind of thing that is “just right” if I am not being a very good person. If I am being a really good person, it is not right for me to read it. We can all feel that way.
