The Mind of a Writer by Nancy Cole Silverman
While presenting the Best Screenplay nominees for the 86th Academy Awards Show, Robert De Niro described the mind of a writer. He said, “The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, and consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”
If half of what Robert De Niro described about a writer
is true I can think of no better reason for a writer to attend the California
Crime Writers’ Conference than to unite with other writers in a sense of
community and know you’re not alone.
Words don’t generate themselves on a page. No matter how many times a writer sits down
and faces a blank page, jots lines and returns the words just don’t magically
appear. It takes time, thought and craft
which is what writers at CCRW will share with each other.
It’s a community of the damned, it’s a community of the
gifted, and most of all it’s a chance to get together with others who suffer the
same afflictions, self-doubts and obsessions. Come for the companionship. Come
for the challenge. Come for the Double Tree Hilton’s famous chocolate chip
cookies. But come and learn you’re not
alone.
Nancy Cole Silverman is a board member of Sisters in Crime
LA and a published author. Shadow
of Doubt, with Henery Press, is the first of the Carol Childs’ mystery
series. For more about Nancy visit her
website; www.nancycolesilverman.com
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