What Is The Life Of A Writer?

  

Most writers do not make much money from their creations. They do it as a labor of love with the hope of being heard, making a difference, and if lucky, some fame and fortune.  

Aside from most writers laboring in obscurity or a lack of riches, they suffer from writer’s block, stress, depression, or other afflictions that may have made writing a curative experience for them. Writers write what they know, and often it comes out of pain, loss, or despair. Not all. There are many happy or balanced writers but if you peel the paint away, you’ll see events in life -- divorced parents, bad accidents, loss of life, financial tragedy, sexual assaults, mental illness, disability discrimination, addictions, violence, and broken dreams play some kind of role for a writer's inspiration.   

Writing is an art form that can inform, enlighten, inspire, and/or entertain the reader and heal the writer simultaneously. For many writers, crafting and sharing their work is essential to their being, a form of spirituality, as important as breathing, eating, and loving. The writer is on a continually evolving path of introspection, accumulating ideas, experiences, and current events that will get repackaged into fresh books, articles, and poems.  

Writers, no matter what, often feel they need and desire to write. Some even view the day as a loss without writing. When you are a writer, nothing happens without writing, but anything can happen when your hand strokes the keyboard or the pen strikes the paper.  

Some writers like to connect with fellow writers; many need guidance, advice, resources, and help, while others like a forum to brag of their success and offer assistance to others. But many writers shun their kind. I don’t know if it’s jealousy or fear of creative theft or something else, but most writers enjoy holding themselves responsible for their own success and simply isolate from other writers. They don’t want to be influenced by them. Call it pride - or ignorance -- but writers are the most self-reliant people that I know.  

Writing can be therapeutic to the writer. Therapy can help some writers while for others, therapy could suppress or soften a rage that writers need to work their craft.  

Writers make many sacrifices and compromises in order to write. Talented writers deserve our praise, support, and understanding, but even those who have not yet perfected their craft, they should always be encouraged to keep trying for the ever-elusive moment of breakthrough.

 

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About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over four million pageviews. With 5,000+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2024.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully).

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog