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@daeus-lamb What do you mean by writing being a legitimate alternate life? I’ve a feeling I probably agree… but that can mean so many different things. Especially when it’s so easy to slip into writing and let it take over everything else. I think it’s a very valid and quite large aspect of life for us writers but, like you said, is hardly the whole thing. Not saying a person should never make writing their whole life, but in most cases it’s probably not the best thing to do unless they want to live as a hermit in some unheated cave or are a billionaire with someone to tend to them. Cause you know – people exist and mean something. Also our bodies need things like food, wifi, chocolate, and clothes.

@raemarie hey! *waves*

I feel like there is a fine line between…….living life and abandoning our calling as writers and ignoring our lives by becoming involved deeply in writing. And I’m not really sure how to keep in a perfect middle.

It’s really a mindset/focus thing more than what one is actually doing. I was on the other side a year or two back, so I know what you’re talking about. Wrote a poem about it, actually (Between Two Worlds)

Regardless, it has to do where one’s focus is more than how much one writes. One can be so wrapped up in writing that everything else seems distant and… less real, in a sense. You can have a job and do any number of things, all with your mind and spare minutes wrapped up in writing and end up being the worse for it. Or you can be focused on people and life in general, drawing from it while treating writing like a ‘job’ where they sit down for an hour or two each day and work.

It all boils down to focus. Is one’s focus on the writing or does it stretch beyond that? Because we need to be focused on who we are as Christians first. And for most of us here, a large part of that includes writing. But we need to put writing in its proper place. Even if we have a grand mission of showing truth to others through our writing, we can’t ignore the ones we are trying to help while pounding out words to show them the truths that we are letting fall by the side in our own life.

So… it’s not really a fine line. It’s a mindset shift. And how one treats/views writing depends on where one’s focus is, and if one has made writing their whole life or has focused their life on Christ and then taken up writing to use as a weapon or tool for His cause.