The Writers Dilemma

Our pen or keyboard is our chisel, and your mind is our canvas. First we must ask a very important question. What state of urgency would push man into feeling the relentless drive to record their thought, better yet immortalise it and impose it upon all who come in contact with it? Surely if the writer lived in a world abundant of joy and human prosperity, they wouldn’t feel the need to express themselves so urgently? Or if the world wasn’t run by a handful of people leeching off the masses like parasites, maybe the writer wouldn’t feel the urge to communicate their thought so desperately? If the world wasn’t a collection of collectives, but was a collection of individuals working together for the common good of the world and its people, maybe the writer would cease to write about the struggle of man?  Maybe perhaps if hate, greed, corruption, and separatism weren’t so rampant in the world today, just maybe in that case, man wouldn’t have to squeeze the last drop of their emotion to capture reality as it is, in their writing?

You see, people write because they feel they need to share their gift of the written word, their ability as thinkers, as sponges absorbing all of life’s madness. If one lived in comfort, insulated from the pain and suffering of this society, if their peace wasn’t threatened by overwhelming outside influence, writers would not exist! True writers exist as they are the last frontier. They are the buffer zone, and the ones who try to record reality as it unfolds. Writers are the mirrors of society reflecting the world, but unlike simple mirrors, they absorb, and painfully reflect back upon society a vision that’s very personal. As writers we tell a story of pain as we experience it, because if wasn’t for pain, be it physical or emotional, we’d never feel the urge to truly share what we feel and see.

A writer’s dilemma is that they are constantly living in a world of conflict. What makes a writers task so difficult is that they don’t merely record the life around them, they have to sort through reality, and struggle within themselves as they fight to give us an individual taste of the world around us. Their views are pure, but unique. Their emotions are raw, but complex. The writers try to mirror a reality that gets disassembled and pieced back together within their minds.

The most passionate writer is thus a tortured soul and it’s the responsibility that lies within a writer, that becomes his/hers dilemma…