We are writers – which is to say, we make sense of our lives after the fact, once we’ve had a chance to unscramble the details in our notebooks. If you want to be a writer, you should know that you will be up against some very hard truths, and you must leave your ego at the door.
If that sounds all right by you – well, then, welcome to the club.*
*Not that membership to our club is particularly elite. We’re mostly prone to attracting the odd souls who can’t sleep until they’ve wrestled with the chaos of their thoughts and spun out their heart’s deepest turbulence in lines of poetry and scraps of prose.Â