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

[snippy]

I think it's horse hockey. I have no (fiction) writing ambition, and I find writing to be very difficult--even the essays I did last year for my logic and argument class were as hard as going to the dentist. Maybe he's only talking to himself--and people like him. But that doesn't mean *every* writer is like him. What, no other great writers were ever blocked?

[ladyjaida.livejournal.com]

Hah, horse hockey! That's great.

But I completely agree -- I really detest it when one writer will make a sweeping, generalizing statement about what writing is or isn't or what people should or shouldn't do, since it's damn well different for everyone!