Going, going.....keep going...

Writers are a special kind of person. Yes, they are! Stop shaking your head in denial.
How many people have you met that have said to you, (once you reveal what you do for a living) 'I have always wanted to write a book.'
Well, wanting to and actually writing it, that's a whole different story.

Many of us are number people, (no not me- that's why I have people count for me) some of us are visual, painting-people, and others, love science, technology... and then there are the word-people.

Words. So damn powerful. They make or break politicians, create hate, love, yes, they are mightier than the sword at times.

Some writers are one hit wonders, have one novel in them, perhaps a memoir, and vanish. Like the music world, they shoot like a star across the sky and we wonder, whatever happened to them? The creative juices dried up.
Writer's block. You've heard it. Some of us writers have the opposite, and can't seem to get the words on paper quick enough. You all know where I fall.

Ambitious writers tend to think ten steps ahead...next book? Next dream? Make a movie? Have that movie succeed? And then?

Where to go from there? Keep making movies?

The journey, at least to me, has become some kind of strange race or chase. I can see my peers, the authors- in my genre- all of us working towards a common goal. Entertaining people. I suppose that's the point of all our madness. Sharing the world inside our head and hoping to teach a lesson, make someone laugh, cry, get scared, whatever it is they fancy.

But the race is always out there. Next title, next book, next movie, next step. I don't know about my fellow authors but, I'm exhausted!!
Those of us making a living at our art can't complain. (But we still do at times) If you can actually sit and write all day and pay your bills from your work, I think you have already succeeded. But we still want more...don't we?
As I wait to see where my movie, CAPITAL GAMES will be premiering, wonder if it will be panned or praised, consider which book to do next, (just shoot me now if I do that again!) where are we going? What drives the few of us ravenous authors to go! Go! GO!

I know who you are, you writers...I can count you on one hand. You and I, we are of the same ilk. I see how much you produce, how much work you put into your craft, your fan bases grow, and I know you inside and out. We are kindred spirits. I don't need to name you, you know exactly who you are and I adore you all for sharing my passion and insanity in this field, a field where ten years ago you could not find one book on gay erotic romance. A new genre that a few of us have created into the novel world and are working tirelessly on getting it out there in every media. Although gay romance has now become a tide flooding the market, the few names I began with ten years ago, persevered.
Why?

We are 'special kinds of people'- driven! Driven mad-

There is no choice, we keep going, going...and I suppose will until we are gone. I tip my hat to the hard work my contemporaries have put into their careers, because I know what they need to do to continue to succeed. It ain't easy, folks, and for anyone who wants to work in this field and make a living, be prepared to give it your all.

But hopefully, when we are gone, gone, gone...a book will be out there, floating in the ether, and someone will remember our name.

Be safe out there.