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Let me start this post by clarifying that I am not a recluse. I am in good health, have good friends and...well, ya'll get the point.
Anyways, I wonder about the loner-author stereotype and why it exists. Perhaps there's a good reason? Maybe an author who is holed up in a vast mansion in the country can write better without the chatter of the outside world. Or perhaps that solidarity is what each of us yearns for, and our chosen profession is merely a reflection of that desire to avoid the overpopulated, stressed world that we live in. I hate to say (write) it, but I truly believe there's a correlation between a person who can get lost in reading hundreds of novels (like most good writers do) and a person who wants to get away from it all, out in the country where there is room for the soul.
Does anyone else have this yearning? Or maybe just the idea that if you were truly alone for a long period of time, that some of your best writing would be produced?
Anyways, I wonder about the loner-author stereotype and why it exists. Perhaps there's a good reason? Maybe an author who is holed up in a vast mansion in the country can write better without the chatter of the outside world. Or perhaps that solidarity is what each of us yearns for, and our chosen profession is merely a reflection of that desire to avoid the overpopulated, stressed world that we live in. I hate to say (write) it, but I truly believe there's a correlation between a person who can get lost in reading hundreds of novels (like most good writers do) and a person who wants to get away from it all, out in the country where there is room for the soul.
Does anyone else have this yearning? Or maybe just the idea that if you were truly alone for a long period of time, that some of your best writing would be produced?