on Being a writer?

Get Down Tonight and Write.

I am a writer, a story teller. I tell the truth but have been known to lie, lay, have been lain and occasionally gotten laid. We have an opportunity to be what we intuitively know that we are. A writer, a scribe. Penmen-ship doesn’t count. Clearness of thought does. Detail, account laden verbiage . We find it best to know or learn what we can of the King’s English and it’s rules but the design of the story is yours and when one knows the rules, at least the basics, then one can break the rules for the art of the story. Rules are made to be broken. Your only responsibility, your only job, is to get your story out. On paper, in the PC, out.
We journalize to externalize my Psych teacher used to instruct. My writing teachers would concentrate on form. Architects however will tell you ,form follows function.
Get the story out.
This is not a good writing site; This is a great writing site.
If you got angry when you read the first sentence and didn’t read the conclusion of the next sentence then perhaps you have things yet to learn, about story telling, about thought and creative license.
As I compose and post my pieces many of my peers have been kind enough to offer grammatical editing and literary critique. I suppose this is why we are here to collectively improve our writing. But are we qualified? Do we know the background of the writer?
When I write I’ m looking for substance. Including this article, I write for me. Writing begets more writing. I like to write.
A little background : I was a proof-reader for a major publishing house in NY city for 18 months until I finished acting school. That was twenty-five years ago. I have taken English courses, writing courses and been in groups (for writers). But I have found my own first rule of writing, get the story out. This works equally well with an idea or invention or thought. At a local TV station I was once assigned (with a group of writers) to write a story based on an incident that happened at the station years earlier. The incident was almost insignificant but the idea was to take this small incident and create a story. Write it down, flesh it out , get the story.
At my age I do not worry about grammatics ( the correct word is grammar) or spelling though I am fair with the utilization of both. Remember I was a Poof-reader (of course I can spell proof but then it wouldn’t be funny. Furthermore I am going to be Six Hundred years old this November. I wrote that out so that you wouldn’t think I had made a typing error and inadvertently added an extra zero. My intent is always to get the story out, the words. It is the sound of a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it. It is Mu.
Want to be good at structure, be an architect. The words will stand on their own if you know where you are going with your story and are clear in detail and description.
Chances are pretty good that when I use an epithet, a misnomer , misspell, or forget to capitalize it is intentional. Take capital letters. Quite simply I am left handed and I keep accidentally hitting the caps lock key. So I decided to take to the style of ee cummings (1894-1962) and stay away from the cap lock key. So what is also is what is so. That is the thread that keeps the thought together. So sews the story and so it goes.
Writing is a marvelous craft. Learn it , use it, understand the rules and abuse it but have your fun. There’s plenty more to write and I’ve got plenty more lead in my pencil.[end] oh and one more thing...Don't believe everything you read, even this.
Find your own path. I am wishing you only the best, we're in this writing craft together even if we never meet. neat club, huh?