tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post4198137158900998780..comments2023-04-26T04:15:25.976-07:00Comments on One Writer's World: The Writer's Life . . . Now and ThenSusan Oleksiwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693057997469296068noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-60718881098595372522015-08-12T10:20:03.953-07:002015-08-12T10:20:03.953-07:00Thank you, Earl. Approval from you rates very high...Thank you, Earl. Approval from you rates very high in my book. God knows I'm not doing this for the money, but I'm so glad I can do it. Thanks for stopping by.Susan Oleksiwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693057997469296068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-60147354828305667172015-08-12T10:07:32.605-07:002015-08-12T10:07:32.605-07:00An excellent piece, Susan. You've expressed v...An excellent piece, Susan. You've expressed very well what many of us feel and why we write. If we were doing it for the money, we wouldn't still be doing it Earl Staggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13349667172813175960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-86686811971321471932015-08-12T07:04:53.054-07:002015-08-12T07:04:53.054-07:00Thanks, Ainee. Perhaps I'll write a longer blo...Thanks, Ainee. Perhaps I'll write a longer blog on that topic.Susan Oleksiwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693057997469296068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-64562303282446701742015-08-12T06:53:58.958-07:002015-08-12T06:53:58.958-07:00The title should then be: Why I write (today).The title should then be: Why I write (today).Ms. Ainee C. Belandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11712893924509179747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-81449639800620796762015-08-12T06:31:00.720-07:002015-08-12T06:31:00.720-07:00The love of writing is definitely the essential pi...The love of writing is definitely the essential piece. In my very early years I knew writers who were never published but they kept on writing. However the world changes around us, we keep on writing, and sometimes we break through all the barriers. Thanks for commenting, Jacquie.Susan Oleksiwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693057997469296068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-91718073193528864642015-08-11T11:40:58.985-07:002015-08-11T11:40:58.985-07:00Like most other writers, writing time was a luxury...Like most other writers, writing time was a luxury for me for many years. I too agree with what you've written here because it's true. Times have changed dramatically. Some things are better for writers and others are much worse. But those of us who love to write will continue regardless.Jacqueline Seewaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09177500620940251009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-42638919771520277212015-08-11T09:07:33.133-07:002015-08-11T09:07:33.133-07:00We've created unrealistic expectations today. ...We've created unrealistic expectations today. We forget that even successful writers had day jobs (John Leggett, teacher; Wallace Stevens, poet and insurance executive; and T.S. Eliot, poet and business?). If we're only writing for money, we should do something else. I know what you mean about revisiting the book worlds we create. I'm working on a Mellingham because I miss Joe and Gwen.Susan Oleksiwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693057997469296068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642483803813231715.post-18481696997164778732015-08-11T08:40:35.782-07:002015-08-11T08:40:35.782-07:00I totally agree with everything you wrote in the l...I totally agree with everything you wrote in the last paragraph. I came to writing late in life and missed those early years when a writer could make a living at writing. For me writing is a nice supplement which I appreciate. But I write because I love creating worlds, populating them and then living among those people for awhile. I write so I can go back to those places whenever I want to.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15964712984479525970noreply@blogger.com