Writers Have to be Neurotic Assholes

April 26th, 2009

A few weeks ago, a friend and I discussed why other artists, such as dancers and painters, don’t get “boogie woogie block” or “watercolor block.” Why do writers seem to own the blockage market?

I believe it’s due to the nature of the beast. Writers are neurotic assholes.
sshole

Neuroses

Writing is the most unnatural form of art. Humans were painting and dancing and singing waaay before scroll and hieroglyphics came into existence. Kids don’t know how to write – until you teach ‘em.

Writing is the attempt to take the sublime and turn into a bunch of abstract alphabet letters. Most of all, good writing requires great characters. And this requires an ability to put yourself in other’s shoes, to question motives, to analyze them ad nauseum. Yes…a certain neuroticism.
uroticis

Asshole-ness

Writing is also the most intimate art. There is a psychological bareness in writing, a diving into and illumination and analyzation of the inner lives of the author.

People have this image of writers writhing in their own pain – not realizing that a person has to be an emotionally tough to endure such mental torture. Most people could not handle the suffering that writers go through – but writers are born assholes. They stubbornly walk through the scary corridors of their mind, just because.
because.

Me, Myself and I

Am I a neurotic assholes? Oh, no doubt. You just have to read this blog, or read my writing, to know that it’s all about me, me, me  and then me some more.

So, if you’re a kind, reasonable type of person – don’t be a writer. Be a social worker.

Insufferable SOBS and drama queen biyatches – welcome to the wonderful world of scribblin’.

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