I met an aspiring writer recently to talk through options, ways of getting started and how to 'break' into the industry. She has a young family and like all of us finding the time to write is a major hurdle, she has plans, ideas but has failed to put any of them into action...yet.

Towards the end of our conversation she stated how content she was with her life, how happy she was to be spending time with her family and doing her most important job of being a Mum and it made me think (actually it made a sneaking kind of suspicion start to climb and grow around me like the creeper on the wall outside my house) that perhaps she might never 'find the time' to write, because to be a writer I think you need a certain amount of discontent.

Writing fills the gap between life and its meaning, we are all writing because we are trying to say something, trying to make sense of the world around us. There is something inside us that itches to get out, sometimes we are not sure what it is we want to say but we know we need to try and say it and we are not content unless we do. I am not saying that all writers are a miserable bunch of melancholy philosophers but that true contentment only comes when we are trying to communicate 'it' (whatever that 'it' is) through words. 

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