Do you want to know what makes a writer tick?
Here are a couple of facts. The first is brilliantly funny. It’s here.
And if you’re still in the mood for something more serious, this is what Amos Oz says in A Tale of Love and Darkness:
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.
The period Oz is discussing was a century ago, but what he says is still true today, the difference being that you can now do some of those things without leaving your room.
Happy writing!
Miriam Drori, Author 