Invisible

One of com professors (*ahem* one of my FAVORITE com professors) just said that good writing was invisible. He compared writing to the screws and joints that hold a building together. You don't notice them, and you certainly don't talk about them, but they're still there, and they're needed to hold everything together.

My first thought, as a writer, was where does that leave me?

Sure, maybe some of my motivations for asking this are a bit selfish. I mean, I'm the writer, I don't want my creations to go unnoticed. I want people to pour over every word I type, and drool over my adverb choices. I want the kids who tormented me in high school to show their remorse by praising my hard news inverted pyramid.

I just want people to know my name.

But is this the best way to go? Probably not. I should be writing to tell a story, not to get glory for myself. And hopefully, if I do things the right way, for the right reasons, that other stuff will come later.