The writer Dorothy Parker famously said, "I hate writing. I love having written." I've never felt that way, nor do I understand why anyone who did would become a writer and stay a writer. Well, okay, maybe for the money…but I never got that as Ms. Parker's sole driving motivation. I've never felt it was true of any of my favorite authors and I've told aspiring scribes that if they don't love the sheer act of writing that they're aspiring to the wrong profession.
But now here I see that a writer whose work I like a lot, Merrill Markoe, sides with Dorothy Parker. Fortunately, Ms. Markoe seems to have found a way not to hate it.