Writer's Block...

Where does a writer find their edge? Is it through the crazy times, the dark deep lonely soul-searching days, or the happy spunky times of smiles and celebrations. I would like to think it'd be in the happy times, but so often this is not true. So many writers and artists aren't even discovered until after they have already passed on, some from drinking themselves to death or torturing themselves slowly by their own personal turmoil. Of course these are extreme cases, but it's also the case of some of the most famous work that we know today. To truly write a work of art, I believe that it takes a certain gift. A writer has to tap into their own human experiences as well as their own imagination to come up with a whole entourage of characters, emotion, and gut-wrenching subplots that have to entice the audience. And what audience doesn't want drama, destruction, violence, guilt, sin, greed, heartache, or revenge. These are things we all can't live out in our day to day lives, but to read about it or watch it...it lets us escape and vicariously live through others or escape from our own reality. Not that our reality is necessarily something we want to escape from...but writers let themselves let loose enough to re-write the ordinary into something that we could only fantasize about. I admire writers, and I admire a well-written writer all the more, because a good writer might dedicate their whole life to writing, and while some of their work may never be seen or appreciated...some of it just might stick around and influence, entertain, or entice a whole generation.