Motives

I'm a writer apparently.  It's really sort of a nothing job description because you're either not making much if anything, or you could be a colossal success, and the difference between success and not making is kind of a big one.  At any rate, at times it can be a title that tries to make a person seem more important than they really are.  Projection is everything.  People care what others think about them, it's science.  My point here isn't about titles, so much as it is about reality.  A writer is nothing.  With the exception of a select few telling about their exploits of things they did before writing, most writers seem to be people who don't do dangerous things, or things of real significance.  Most of them are people who fantasizing, at least fiction writers are.  Fiction writers are people who write heroes.  What they're really writing about are people are what they wish they could be.  I think that's really what writers are doing.  They write for themselves to see themselves as something stronger, smarter, better than what they really are.  At least, that's what I'm doing in my stories.  There's enough of some aspects of life that I'm trying to slip into my stories, and resolve things in a way real life never got the chance to.  There's some gratifying in that it motivates you to finish whatever it is you're working, but there's always a reminder life didn't turn out the way it could have, or should have.