10 Ways to Love a Writer: On Valentine’s Day and Forever
How do you love your writer? Do you know the ways?
Author Aine Greaney has shared her fun post on ways to love a writer for Valentine’s Day.
1. Forgive our occasional social gaffes, like when we gaze off mid-dinner and mid-sentence to let that bistro meal grow cold. We’re not ignoring you. Honest. We’re writing. Or eavesdropping. Same thing.
2. When we’re doing a reading or speaking on a book panel, we don’t invite you along for the same reason that you don’t invite us to tag along to your office, construction site or teaching classroom. For a working writer, all public appearances are part of the job. And for that event, we’re focused on doing a good job, not being an attentive lover, or friend, or spouse.
3. No matter how long we’ve been living/sleeping together, we will never, ever share the same email.
4. Feed us. It’s the way to a writer’s heart.
5. Whatever your childhood experiences, open up to us. You see, the very act of writing helps us to know the human spirit. And that makes us good friends and loyal, empathetic partners. So cry on our writers’ shoulders. We can take it.
6. Somewhere I’ve read, “A clean house is a sign of a wasted life.” So if you insist on a spotless house, a writer may not be the best love-choice for you.
7. Never, ever recycle that “useless looking scrap of paper on the dining room table.” NEVER. At least not without checking.
8. When we wake up next to you and mutter, “I was dreaming about a pink dragon with an extra long tail who was at this party with my very first boyfriend from secondary school?” That’s about a pink dragon with an extra long tail. Not about you. And not about any of our ex’s.
9. Let us love you back. The days of the hedonistic or the scatter-brained writers are gone. Or should be. As well being a writer, we have a duty to love, honor, protect and contribute to our relationships and our household finances.
10. We will not always—if ever—show you our first drafts. See item 2.
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Follow Aine Greaney on Twitter @ainegreaney
Dance Lessons: Shortlisted, 2011 Independent Literary Awards, Fiction
Category: Contemporary Women Writers
About the Author (Author Profile)
I’m an Irish writer (County Mayo) now living on Boston’s North Shore.
My second novel, Dance Lessons has been published by Syracuse University Press. Read more about the book or order your copy here.
As well as writing, I lead writing workshops at various schools, arts organizations, libraries and colleges in New England and beyond. For information on my programs and workshops, visit the Mass. Cultural Council artist profile.
As well as working, writing and teaching, I get out and about now and again. I belong to local and regional arts and writing organizations, including the New Hampshire Writers Project, the Cape Cod Writers Center, Irish Network Boston and the American Conference for Irish Studies.
I travel back to Ireland frequently.
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- On Valentine’s and Beyond: How to Woo (and love) a Writer | writerwithadayjob | February 14, 2012
Aine, Thank you for sharing a copy of your clever Valentine’s Day post with us. It’s interesting and entertaining.