On Writing

I'll post this here because I keep referring back to it whenever I think that writing is just something I do when there's nothing better to do, or when I think that I should give it up and just do something regular and productive and common.

Neil Gaiman's "On Writing"

My favorite quote from the piece:

"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. It has no job security of any kind, and depends mostly on whether or not you can, like Scheherazade, tell the stories each night that'll keep you alive until tomorrow. There are undoubtedly hundreds of easier, less stressful, more straightforward jobs in the world."