Doing What You Love

I love to write. I have always wanted to be a writer. I have wanted to be a writer ever since I was reading The Hardy Boys. Blogger was created for people like me. I remember I had to read this book when i was in Graduate School, I had to read this book for one of my classes by Philip Roth called The Great American Novel. It was about this fictitious baseball team and it may be the single worst thing I have ever read in my life or at least that I had to finish reading. My professor, a huge baseball fan, loved it. I felt like I had to love it for the sake of my grade. In my defense, let me point out, there is a little bit of kiss ass in all of us. The point I guess I am trying to make is, what defines "great" writing. I guess that is up to the buyer and the reader of the books. I have always been afraid to put myself out there as a writer, as a person, as an employee, as a whatever. It is now or never time for me as far as writing goes. I read something by Stephen King this past year titled On Writing and that made me more than ever determined to become a published man. I don't blogging counts as being a published man but Stephen King said somewhere in his book that he would still be writing even if he didn't get paid for it. All of the money was just a nice bonus. Damn, what a nice bonus. I have thought he has written some real crap before and I am sure he knows that he has. Not everything you do is going to be great. I want to love what I do, I want to write, and I believe loving what I do will strengthen any relationships that I have.