It's time!

Posted on 2009/11/08 15:46:02 (November 2009).

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that I’ll follow the path of the (more or less) famous playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, my (alleged) ancestor.

One knows he is a writer when one feels the need to write and particularly when that need turns to a craving.
It became like an addiction to me and I feel bad as time eludes me.

Now why should I be a playwright rather than a novel writer or a scriptwriter?
Writing novels, or essays, bores me as I hate descriptions. I like to go directly to the point and convey with few but effective words what I have to say.
Writing film scripts is much more appealing. Unfortunately, the circle of scriptwriters is very tight. Hard to penetrate... unless you know the right person.
Writing plays is, I believe, what suits and fits me best. You deal with nothing but the essential.

But why do I feel the need to write?

- Firstly because it saves me the costs of a shrink.
- Secondly because it’s the best way, I think, to satisfy my strong desire for public recognition. I need to shout to the world that I exist. I can’t accept that my life is but a brief, insignificant, unoticed interlude. Which is vain, I know. I am a vain person, I won’t deny it.
- Thirdly because I came to realise that I’m quite... different. It sounds pretentious, arrogant, but I’m not like Mr Nobody. I know I can go somewhere. I know I can add my own stone, my own touch, my own stroke to the making of this world. There is something in me which says “you can”...... “you can and you must!”

It’s time now to stop wasting my skills. It’s time now to become productive, to do constructive things. Not in the framework of our economy which I abhor. In a larger, wider, deeper context.

Of course I won’t give up work and family. My business is starting rather well, better than expected. I just have to find the right modus vivendi between work, family and writing.

Comment 1

Strange, I share exactly the same points when I write! :D Does it means that we are "normal" in our desire to write about life and experiences?

Posted by Lox at 2009/11/08 15:56:42.

Comment 2

Sorry Nigel, I deleted the comments which followed the fist one cose I didn't like what I wrote. It was way too pretentious.