Nobody Writes Again

I'm a nobody amongst many.

I write alone sometimes with a mask.

Nobody starts out trying to be a writer. They just begin writing and keep writing and then one day they notice that they've wrftten quite a bit, probably more than most. They keep writing and then somebody discovers what they are doing.

I remember one of my first notices vame when a colleague said "I admire your productivity."

He didn't mention anything about quality or art or imagination or skill. He envied my productivity which means I guess that I was writing more than he was writing although with less skill, imagination, quality or art.

Yeah I'm productive.

I write and write and write. 

Then one day I figured that with all this horseshit in my barn, there must be a pony in here somewhere. I started sharing my writing. I came to the conclusion that writing needs reading.

Some people noticed.

Pretty sure they recognized my productivity but were pretty glad that they weren't doing it themselves. They had other more productive things to do with their time  along with the talent and capability of getting those things done and maybe, just maybe I had a little too much time on my hands which I must have because when they were out doing whatever productive, capable things they were doing,  I was sitting at a keyboard doing what I'm doing now.

Somebody who noticed  what I did and what I was doing suggested that I put some of my stories together and "get published." I though that was a pretty good idea. I had no idea how to "get published' and wasn't that eager to find out. Remember, I'm a nobody who's not trying to a writer. I just write and write and write.

I don't even set out to write anymore.

I sit down at my keyboard and all of a sudden something like this happens.

And then BAM, I did it again.

Yet another product.

Now that I'm retired, I'm flirting with the idea of identifying myself as a "writer" when people ask me what I do. I explain that writing isn't what I set out to do but rather it's what I did and what I'm doing and if past is prologue will continue to do.

I've published two legitimate books just so I can say "I've written two books" when they ask me if I've written any books. I guess if you're a writer, you have had to write at least two books, one is not enough apparently.

Sometimes someone will ask what my books are about, I mean books have to be about something dont they? What's the plot. A book is all about plot, isn't it?

I tell them my writing is kinda autobiographical which most of them sort of dismiss as farts in a whirlpool because it's plain and obvious that I haven't done much in my life that's very noteworthy and I'm a legend in my own mind.

If they want to know more, I politely hand them a card which my daughter made for me so I could hand somebody something when they asked me what my books were about.

As for the actual writing in the books, it's something that I did and do.

I didn't set out to be a writer.

I'm a nobody.