moments of authorship

I have devoted much of my free time to writing over the past year.   Writing is an activity that I enjoy intensely.   Finding just the right word, arriving at the perfect voice for a viewpoint character, charting the twisted path of my characters’ lives – these moments are exhilerating.   Everytime.    I take authorship very seriously.   Words matter.  They have power.   Good writing makes the world better.  I honestly believe that. 

I have recently come to think of authorship more as a philosophy than a hobby.   I write with intense concentration and sharp focus.   This is appropriate when wielding power.   A swoop of the mouse and a click on the keyboard and an entire city is decimated.   Enemies become lovers just as effortlessly.  The author enjoys fabulous freedom of action.   

How much more this philosophy applies to everyday life.  I am the author of my own life.  Living a moment creates a narrative in precisely the same way as writing fiction.  Words have power.  Words uttered harshly characterize the protagonist.   Tenderness and passion twine a love story through the main plot.  This is no less true of life than it is of fiction.

I sometimes feel that I have more freedom to create as an author than I do in my own life.   But this is not true.   One writes and lives in the present moment.  Each moment is an act of authorship unfettered by past and future.  The freedom is real.