Why I write

In a recent meeting I had with a BBC Script editor he asked me this question ‘David why do you write?’ I simply said;

‘If I don’t do it someone else will’

I have that written on a sheet of A4 paper on my bedroom wall above my laptop on my desk, as a constant reminder to what’s at stake. It would pain me to see someone else getting commissioned for an idea for a TV Drama, Film or documentary that I had because what it boils down to is I lacked the minerals to do it myself. It’s not an easy living to make it is as a writer it can be a very lonely occupation filled with writers block and the constant questions of; Is what I am writing shit? ‘Will it ever get made or published? And will people even like it. The reason why I write gets me through these hard times, because for all those hard moments there are plenty of good ones

As the character Brian Selby said (Vanilla Sky 2001)

‘You can do whatever you want with your life, but one day you’ll know what love truly is. It’s the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.’

Even though his talking about this in the context of love you can still put this to any aspect of life; you can’t truly appreciate the sweet without a bit of roughing up getting there.