If I Was an Author

First of all I have to make clear that the topic of my essay is not an easy one for me to choose. This is because I’ve sometimes been seriously thinking it would be awesome to do some intense writing when I’m a bit older; how old, I don’t know. However, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t consider writing as a full-time job but more as a pastime and as an expression of my own creativity. Writing as a profession could possibly turn out to be very frustrating in my case because when I like to do something I like to do it carefully and this always takes loads of time, time, time. And I would hate to be an extremely productive author, publishing like six massive books a year. I wonder if they are even excited about writing anymore, or are they only in it for the money…

If I started serious writing, I would have a hard decision ahead: which genre would my books represent. I’d certainly try many kinds of genres, but which one would be my speciality? Fantasy? No, personally I think that the best fantasy books have already been made and that it takes more talent to write something about regular things, things that could happen in real life. I’m convinced my writing would be fictional, maybe slightly based on true stories.

Detective stories. That could just be my thing I’ve read some outstandingly stylish ones and got huge inspiration from them. All my characters would be interesting and many-sided, leaving the murder (yes of course there is a murder) a tough nut to crack. And in the end the hero, my own character always wearing a hat, would every time be clever enough to figure out the hardest solutions.

It’s fascinating to speculate what my life would be like if I was an author. I’d be sitting on my sofa for hours every week, drinking coffee while trying to invent new linguistic tricks and surprising twists to my stories. I would have days I couldn’t write a single word and days I’d be writing like a maniac until I couldn’t keep my eyes open.

Thinking about all this makes it pretty clear to me I wouldn’t want to be a hardcore author. What I most enjoy in my life is communicating with others on many levels and I don’t know how badly my relationships would suffer from writing as a job. Maybe too much for me to handle, I don’t know if I could stand it for years. But someday, I will give it a try. I will try what true writing is like. I do have a belief I am able to create something great using the words and ideas my imagination is constantly breeding in my mind. Someday.