Harper Lee, writing, and the art of being lazy.

Here I go again traipsing down the electronic highway find ever more bits to fill my head with. On a blog called Wild-Mind I came across this quote by Harper Lee:

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

I thought hey that's me. I feel this great urge to write and create but then when I'm in front of the computer I can't seem to force myself to flesh out the ideas spinning around. I went to the interview that this quote comes from and found a couple others that apply to me:

It takes time and patience and effort to turn out a work of art, and few people seem willing to go all the way.

Well, the first advice I would give is this: hope for the best and expect nothing. Then you won't be disappointed. You must come to terms with yourself about your writing. You must not write "for" something; you must not write with definite hopes of reward.

It takes work. Work that may well go unrewarded. BUT...BUT I WANT REWARDS!! So hard to let that go. I do know I feel better when I write, even if it is this silly blog. Is that a reward? Probably but I'm taking it.