Dear everybody

[dampscribbler]

Please answer these questions:
What is your art?
What role does your art play in your life?
At what point in your life did you start taking your art seriously? If you don't yet, why not?  
Feel free to elaborate as much or as little as you like on any of these.
If you prefer to answer in your own LJ, please do, but provide a link here so I don't miss it. 

Thank you.  I have a feeling I'll be posting rather a lot starting early next week sometime. 

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[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

Writing.
It's something I need to do to stay centered and sane.
I began trying to publish when I was 16 and sold my first piece at 17, but my efforts were sporadic for many years. After I finished my graduate degree and married, I began writing daily and submitting regularly with a deeper commitment.
I would still write regularly even if nobody ever published me.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've never sold anything, only submitted fewer than half a dozen things, and I have an awful time taking my writing seriously enough to say "I will make time for this every day, this will be a part of my life that gets nurtured." Instead, I say quietly to myself (and others) "I want to/hope to/plan to someday find time for this, it's important to me." Even when I make commitments to write, I keep them to myself, guilty secrets to hide away at the first sound of approaching footsteps.