“No one but a blockhead, sir, ever wrote but for money,” literary luminary Samual Johnson once asserted. (1)
Is that an accurate assessment of writers?
If you want to be a writer, would you write only or primarily for money.?
If you are a writer, do you write only or primarily for money?
Or if you’re a writer, or want to be a writer, would you still write if you had a separate income large enough that you didn’t have to write to earn money?
On writing, Stephen King says:
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair __ the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind or heart…come to it any way but lightly….you must not come lightly to the blank page…it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can come to it seriously, we can do business. If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to do something else. ” (2)
(1) Samuel Johnson ( 1709- 1784 )was an English writer who made lasting contributions to literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
(2) From his book, Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
_ Dennis Mellersh, Content Journalist.
Creative thinking and the creative process 