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

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Ah, hm. As usual, comes down to word choice. Given the definitions you're using, then, I agree. The only problem is that many people use 'writer' to indicate their specific way of being an artist. But for purposes of this discussion, I can forego that.