Ask the Author: Emil Ferris
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Emil Ferris
Important question. Hopefully I can do it justice.
Writing requires time and hence - job, kids, family, social obligations - all become challenges to a writer. What is to be done?
Make your writing an inviolable priority. Turn off or GET RID OF your television. Although children are always priorities, consider scaling back your non-familial social commitments, memberships to clubs, shopping, etc., and be intentional about gifting your time to those who matter most. When guilt surges. (and it will) remind yourself that when you have succeeded in publishing your excellent work, your friends and family will be proud of you.
Remind yourself daily that passion is the great force that creates star systems and forests and your passion is no different. Be the first to consider your writing precious and others will either adopt your conviction or make themselves blessedly less present within the sphere of your life.
Writing requires time and hence - job, kids, family, social obligations - all become challenges to a writer. What is to be done?
Make your writing an inviolable priority. Turn off or GET RID OF your television. Although children are always priorities, consider scaling back your non-familial social commitments, memberships to clubs, shopping, etc., and be intentional about gifting your time to those who matter most. When guilt surges. (and it will) remind yourself that when you have succeeded in publishing your excellent work, your friends and family will be proud of you.
Remind yourself daily that passion is the great force that creates star systems and forests and your passion is no different. Be the first to consider your writing precious and others will either adopt your conviction or make themselves blessedly less present within the sphere of your life.
Emil Ferris
I think that the best thing about being a writer is having a socially approved method of escapism. Of course what redeems the act of world building as something more than simply 'escapism' is that often the writer allows the real problems of our present reality to be recloaked and addressed within their written, imagined world. This event represents the very soul of catharsis and the reason that art is redemptive for both the artist and their patron.
Emil Ferris
I write anyway. I write whether I feel like it or I don't.
Emil Ferris
I go to a thrift shop, not necessarily to buy anything, but to look at the cast off objects, They always suggest life lived, stories untold, secrets and obsessions.
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