A WRITER HAS TO WRITE

A bird has got to fly. A fish has got to swim. And a writer has got to write.

Whether it's through private correspondences or more public platforms like blogs and books, a writer can't rest if he has strong feelings that he can't resist from expressing in a written form. Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn as well as several other confessional novels, stated categorically that an author or a poet has no limits.
I recognize that I have no limits, but I also recognize that there are serious repercussions if I take my freedom to the point that I'm shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre about the often repeated warning. Oftentimes, there are personal ruptures that can never be repaired.
On more than a few occasions the school district tried to strip me of my teaching credential for both journalistic and fictional undertakings, which they found excessive. Publicly, I have prevailed every time, Personally, I have taken devastating hits, divorces and estrangement from my children for extended periods of time part of my purgatory.
Both family and friends have turned on me because they felt I was exploiting them to create characters. They don't understand that a character is not a real person. But no amount of arguing will convince the aggrieved individual that he or she hasn't been cannibalized. In the court of public opinion, a jury might sympathize with their outrage.
Every one insists on the truth, but the truth comes at a heavy price. I have been exiled to a dark world as a result of exposing the persons behind the facades. "It's fiction," I plead. "It's me," they retort.
Trying to attain the truth is no different than Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the mountain only to have it roll back down before he reaches the peak. Thus far, the truth has been beyond my reach. Some philosophers argue that words cannot capture metaphysics at its most transcendent level. Like Sisyphus' boulder, it has crushed me beneath its weight in its descent into the fires of reality.
But a good story is a good story and is more irresistible than good sex. The writer cannot escape the temptation. While making love may lead to the creation of a child, writing, as well as other arts, is the ultimate creative experience.

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