Please keep writing. You need to keep writing because, ultimately, it's what you do. There doesn't need to be any larger purpose other than that it's what you want, what you like, and, ultimately, it satisfies some urge inside. It's like why we keep pets and feed them and take care of them when they're sick and mourn them when they pass...because it fills a need for something outside ourselves and in the end it's worth it, even if it hurts. A lot sometimes.
I hope the health problems get resolved to the point you are that dreaded word 'comfortable'. You might produce that master piece- after all Frank McCourt was 62 when he wrote Angela's Ashes. I also think that without modern medicine most authors in the past would have written while n some degree of pain during their lives.
Please keep writing. You need to keep writing because, ultimately, it's what you do. There doesn't need to be any larger purpose other than that it's what you want, what you like, and, ultimately, it satisfies some urge inside. It's like why we keep pets and feed them and take care of them when they're sick and mourn them when they pass...because it fills a need for something outside ourselves and in the end it's worth it, even if it hurts. A lot sometimes.
That's just life, right?
I hope the health problems get resolved to the point you are that dreaded word 'comfortable'. You might produce that master piece- after all Frank McCourt was 62 when he wrote Angela's Ashes. I also think that without modern medicine most authors in the past would have written while n some degree of pain during their lives.
1. Kill the bird
2. Work on the novel
3. Delicious chicken supper
LOL. I'm told you can get a collar for cockerels which prevents them from crowing - and being 'bumped off' by an angry neighbour!!