I have been a professional, best-selling author, poet, teacher, and blogger for a long time. I am obsessed with and think about writing, painting, and other arts all the time. I have published two hundred prescriptive-posts that were written solely to improve the performance of the thousands of creative people who read them.
One day my wife asked me, “David, why are you so self-absorbed?” Being self-absorbed is usually thought to be an unpleasant quality, but my wife’s question was not a criticism. It was a statement of fact. She knows that I am self-absorbed, and I know it too, but she wanted to know why I am. I am self-absorbed because being a person in the arts, I have to be–I have no choice and it’s a good thing I am. Being self-absorbed is a necessary part of my make-up–and yours too if you are a writer or artist. That’s explained in the post “Why Artists and Writers Are So Self-Absorbed.”
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