Garrison Keillor to me: Get over it, already

[pegkerr]

I have sort of a hard time not taking this personally. Garrison Keillor says that writers who gripe that Writing is Hard (and you all know that I've bitched plenty about being blocked in this journal before) should just get a grip and knock it off. Writing is hard. Get over it.

Writers, Quit Whining. Spare us the self-involved moaning over the agonies of your art. Writing is no harder than anything else, and the complainers should can it.

Ouch.

Thoughts?

Comments

As Mike Ford once said . . .

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

(paraphrasing) writing is at the same time a very soft touch and a very hard dollar. I can't think of anything else I've done that's both as easy and as hard.

As for me, my feeling is that if complaining about it makes life better for you/me/them, you/I/they should go ahead and do it. My own objection is to people -- sometimes including me -- who complain about it when it seems to make life, and writing, more difficult.