Writing Priorities - What comes First?
Credited to E Langford Writing for the first of each month, I guess it was highly likely at some stage I’d reference the classic puzzle, ‘What comes first, the chicken or the egg?’ The phrase could be translated for writers as what comes first, the fully formed entity or the embryonic idea. It follows on from my recent posts that have asked what comes first in driving your writing, such as the desire to write or the desire for success. In these posts I mentioned that I wrote myself a ‘commission’ when I was exploring freelance writing in 2002, and this has driven me to revisit it. The original document dedicated my writing to God in response to the exciting opportunities that opened up before me. The commission offered these gifts back to God while also acting as a check and balance as I considered what to say in the public domain. Although the principles are still true, when I read the document, I felt it wasn’t right for where I am now. As I did so, the puzzle above came to