Anthony Scott Glenn answered Victoria Limbert's question, 'The Passage of Time' with this, 'Sometimes it is the journey that is the most important part'. (I've taken it out of context)
Is the Journey the most important part of your writing endeavours or is the Arriving? The Arriving will be different things to different people. It might be getting published for some. It might be the satisfaction of hearing people make positive comments about your work. For others still it might the act of creation that is the important part. I would like to know what you find the most important part of writing.
For me, it's definitely the journey. The anticipation. The heightened emotion of the infinite possibilities of what could be.
My family have a long standing joke about me: Is that all there is? The 1960's Peggy Lee hit.
Yes, it's the journey,the anticipation.
The way your mouth waters the second before that first bite.
Or the feeling of your heart pulsating in your chest, rising into your eyes and ears as the starting pistol fires and your foot leaves the strain of the starting block with 100 meters of feet pounding the track laid out ahead of you.
The journey, surely, is about the living in the moment.
Feeling the power of the now.
Arriving is merely the end. Isn't it?
I Think AS Glenn was taken a bit out of context. As he was answering a specific writing question and not a "Life The Universe and the Answer is 42" type of thing.
I find that Arriving is indeed the journey. As you need a good destination to have a good journey
Everybody writes rubbish first time except maybe Mozart. But within that pile of rubbish is the gold. The problem of course is some people never get to see the gold within and just publish. Which is why we get so many bad free Kindle books.
The worst book I have ever come across and gave up reading after about six pages was
The "Da Vinci Code" I found it clunky and very badly written.
The Da Vinci Code has sold approximately 40 million copies worldwide. And flooded most UK charity shops.
Does it make it any good. No. But it does show you do not need to be Da Vinci to paint a picture that sells. And this give me great heart;D~
Thank you!
To be honest, I was surprised I wrote that, and then cursed this site for not having a delete option! I have been brought up to face life's problem and work through them and writing helps with that. But I also understand that not everyone in this world is as strong, and they need a little help, so I hope to bring that with my books (one day).
Everyone needs a place they can escape to and a story world is the perfect place :)
Accepting Big Hugs!!!