Feb
Writing is the closest any man or woman will ever come to playing God (or A god).
Some will say childbirth, but that’s giving life, not playing God. Some will argue the cruel play at angry gods, but any animal can inflict pain; cruelty is not playing God, it’s playing Man. Some will point to art or music, but the canvases, while valid & beautiful, are limited to what is heard or what is seen.
Film? I’m living proof that even chimps can make cinema if there’s enough talent to back it up; and the talent is never in the individual anyway, it’s in the group effort of MANY filmmakers aiding the one in telling a story. I love film; it has given me everything I have today. But even filmmaking is not playing God.
Only writing - amongst not only all the arts, but amongst ALL of humanity’s waking endeavors - allows mere mortals a true taste of all-encompassing creation along the lines of that which God (or A god; or a god-like energy from which the universe sprang) knew or knows. You sit down with a blank page or a blank screen and you create a universe. You fashion a world. You populate it with whimsies and desires. You make the world the way you feel it oughta be.
And you don’t have to show a single image to convey your creation to others.
The more you share it, the more your fiction becomes a reality for others - a reality that can even manifest itself in that most unimaginative & over-valued currency: cold, hard cash.
But for any writer, money is never the motivator: it’s the crushing need to get that story/blog/script/poem off your chest and onto someone else’s mind. A writer doesn’t need motivation because a writer can never shut it off. When you write, you are as a god - or even THE God. Who needs motivation for that?
You wanna enjoy the perks of godhood without some jackass nailing you to a cross? Go write something. Right now. Stop reading me.
Kevin Smith, not keeping to the 140 characters on Twitter, offering a locker-room style pep talk about continuing to write by pointing out how writing is like being God (or A god, or the Big Bang).
Quite motivational, indeedy.
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