Musings on the Nature of Writing by Neil McGowan
I’m just coming to the end of a week off work – got to use my annual leave up somehow, and my parents were up from England. As usual, they booked a small cottage near us, in the grounds of Cockenzie House, and despite the weather being chilly at best, we had a great time catching up and just generally relaxing (and drinking copious amounts of gin, but that’s another story). They’re away back to Yorkshire now, and it’s back to work for me by the time this post goes live, but it got me thinking about writing in a couple of ways: is it imperative to write every day, and if so, what, exactly, is the definition of writing? Big questions, but I thought it might be interesting to explore them in this blog post (albeit in a very small way). Writing every day is something you will hear again and again from many sources. I’ve heard it from other writers; I’ve read it in magazine articles and how-to books; I’ve listened to interviews where it invariably comes up. For years, I ...