I'm not a writer

By indy5live · Dec 8, 2013 · ·
  1. I have come to the realization that I am not a writer, I am a creative. I'm constantly thinking up new ideas, new scenarios, new scenes/characters/plots, etc. but I lack the ability to articulate such thoughts. I feel like I could artfully craft a brilliant story had I only the talent of writing (or had thought alone been enough to create) but art takes talent. Had just owning a paint brush, some paint and a blank canvas been enough to craft the Mona Lisa then I'd be a masterful painter, as famous as Leonardo Da Vinci himself, but I am not. Had just owning a pen and paper and a creative thought been enough for me to craft a bestselling novel then I'd be on the New York Times Bestseller's List but I am not. It takes raw talent (or being an apprentice of raw talent) to truly have the skill, the patience, the determination, and the knowledge of storytelling to truly write-out thoughts into words in such an artful way as to create a masterpiece; a masterpiece that is publishable and loved by millions of readers from around the world. I will never experience such a pleasure beyond my own applause. I am an entertainer of one. I am an entertainer of myself; for my thoughts are my own and I have no way of sharing them (at least no way that would do them justices). I am like a paralyzed Michelangelo starring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, knowing it's a sin I can't manifest my thoughts beyond my own imagination. But that is where it remains, no further than the voice in my own mind. Slowly rotting. Wasting away with time. I still have a lifetime ahead of me but I've accepted the fact I'm not a writer. I will only ever be a creative. The world will never even know they've been cheater, deprived of the greatest story never told. So this is my apology to the world. This is my resignation. Goodbye pen and paper. Goodbye voice recorder. Goodbye computer. I need you no longer. My thoughts need no longer be preserved. My manuscripts need no longer be revised, reviewed or rewritten. I am now a common man, accepting a common life. Ash can finally settle over the place where my dreams once set fire. Darkness shall finally have its victory over me. Goodbye.

Comments

  1. Annessa Jones
    I fully understand what you are going through. I am not really a writer either, I am a creator. I am constantly coming up with ideas, but I don't have a medium to express them with.

    It's so hard living in a world where it seems like everyone knows what they are good at, or at least what they can get better at. Everyone finds some sort of medium throughout their lives; instruments, paint, pencils, pens, computers, tablets, movement, athletic balls, shoes, bikes, skates, words, ect. And its hard looking at the world, seeing all of the different tools people use to express themselves, and thinking "None of these are for me."

    Most people, when they hit this predicament, give up. They decide that they weren't meant for this world, and lock away their creativity. But you can't. You have to promise yourself to never stop looking until you find your medium. Because you are you for a reason, and you have the gifts you have to make a difference, no matter how small. And isn't that enough to keep looking? Knowing that somewhere out there, be it on the other side of the earth or in the distant future, someone needs to see or read or watch something that you create.
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