Are you a writer?

Forgot about this blogger and felt compelled to at least, pop it up. What to write? Hmmm.

By now most of you know I claim to be a writer, my last check received by me was earned as a writer, my six finished and three or four unfinished books, and literally hundreds of NP articles and columns would lay a foundation for my claim of being a writer, but, what I write, is so poorly structured, many people would say minimally I'm a poor writer. Fair statement. Yet it is that statement which proves my point. Writing is not a product of education or ability, it is a condition of the human genotype which affects very few individuals in comparison to world population. Why?

Is it S & M? Hurt me, hurt me, make me feel good with razory critique? Is it a function of the immune system staving off psychosis? Is it a form of low self esteem manifested by the need for recognition and affirmation? A delusional pipe-dream? A chance at wealth?

Or is it a calling?

There were no critiques when cave men/women wrote volumes about life with mere doodles. But then again, only a few did, not all of them. If so, the cave walls would be saturated with pictures. They aren't. So why did those few individuals decide it necessary to communicate?

My theory is that all that "Junk DNA" science still can't fully explain, contains the seeds of another human trait- Division of Labor. The ultimate device which accelerated we bipeds into a new consciousness of self-awareness which seems to have begun if not concurrently, then along with the notion of a God who told Moses to build the tent, then proceeded to hand out- instantly, the knowledge and craftsmanship needed to fulfill His requirements. (Shot in the dark here)

Could it be, that we, who write, write whether we want to or not, because we have been chosen, or are the descendants of the first chosen, and within that "Junk DNA" lies the God given DNA instructions to write or as it was, scribe?

Point is: Because a writer does not pursue publication or polished edification, makes him or her no less a writer than Shakespeare or King.

Every single friend here is a writer- (there are a handful who are not) and as such, are defined that undiscovered gene of the scribes, which makes us all related or all like-minded in some aspect of this reality. Sure is not politics, or genre, or spirituality, or gender- yet we are-
Birds of a Feather.