Whom wrote what?

I've been a member of Accentuate Writers Forum now for about 4 years. The interesting thing about AWF is the variety of people who are members there. They come from a wide range of backgrounds with differencing levels of experience. Everyone at AWF have interests that are as varied as the number of members we have. If they have anything in common it is they write or have a love for the written word. Each of us at AWF also share in a desire to someday have our name in print and many of them have succeeded in some way.

If we have learned anything from AWF its that it isn't easy to go from a writer to a published author. It takes work and dedication far greater then many other fields of work. A person doesn't become a published writer just by sitting down at a typewriter and spending a couple of hours. It takes many days, many pages and many more re-writes of everything you've said to polish those pages into something publishable.

Not everyone who dreams of being published will reach that goal and not everyone who does should have. There are some published writers who lack the "real" skills to tell a story or to express an emotion in a compelling way. Some published writers lack imagination and originality of thought to make them stand out.

Sadly many times the greatest writers with the best talent don't write to reach publication but to satisfy their need to write. To them it isn't important or a dream to be published. They only desire to write something for themselves and on occasion share their work with a hand full of others. Some great writers also don't see themselves as talented writers and feel they are not good enough to be published.

As I sit here and re-read this post I realize now that I'm rambled and strayed from my intentions of this post. I started this post planning to talk about TV personalities, mostly evangelist who seem to publish something new almost weekly. I was going to talk about how they are either not that busy or have too much free time on their hands to write so much. I wanted to say too they likely have or use ghostwriters who spend hours reading and listening to sermons or speeches just to pull material into a book format. My point is these evangelist can't possibly be spending that much time at a typewriter (or computer) to write that much.

It is important to understand writing isn't something to be taken lightly. Writing as a profession is a noble and honorable career choice if you have the dedication to see it thru. Many don't and some who do shouldn't.