https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer
這是曾經詢問過自己的問題，我想很多人在年少時期可能都有過這樣的經歷，渴望將自己的文字帶給更多人。
這件事情大多發生在高中時期吧，如果我沒記錯的話。忽然想起來那個年輕的時候都有些中二，看了不少玄幻和懸疑小說，心中泛起了寫小說的念頭，於是動筆。但最終也沒有堅持很久，草草寫了幾萬字，只在幾個朋友中傳閱。
可惜在高考結束後一些殘留的手稿都丟失了，每每想到這件事情都暗自懊惱，也算是一個回憶吧。現在再讓我寫根本沒有那個精力，但我也曾湧起過當一名作家的想法，好像文科生都曾這樣。
我有個朋友喜歡寫詩，現在看起來語義不那麼通順，不太符合詩詞規範，但是他並不在意，很是樂於此道，我也給了他很大的鼓勵，雖然文字中傷春悲秋，“為賦新詞強說愁”。
持續寫作是一個好的習慣，從前是為了抒發情感，現在是為了輸出自己的思考。大同小異，歸根結底還是對自我的一種輸出。
so you want to be a writer?
Charles Bukowski - 1920-1994
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.