Comments on: The Rilke Test: How to Know if You Have What It Takes to Be a Writer

By: Nicole Bianchi

Nicole Bianchi — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:50:14 +0000

In reply to Hamish. Thank you for your comment, Hamish! I'm glad you enjoyed this piece, and I wish you much success with your writing. :)

By: Hamish

Hamish — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:37:40 +0000

That question is one I have often asked myself but didn’t know I was. After reading your explanation here I searched within myself and came relatively quickly to the answer that I love writing, the entire process from start to finish. Though I’ve not yet mastered the art of finishing things, when I write, or edit, or share stories I feel more alive than any other time. (Writing songs is included in this group of things as well.)

Thank you for sharing such compelling words, and encouraging us writers to examine our ‘why’. Peace to you and your loved ones Nicole.

By: Nicole Bianchi

Nicole Bianchi — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:55:54 +0000

In reply to James D Stone.

Hi James,

Thank you! I’m so glad you’ve found my newsletters and articles helpful. I wish you much success with your new career in writing. God bless.

By: James D Stone

James D Stone — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 02:06:16 +0000

Hi Nicole,

I’m a new follower. Your blogs and newsletters have been so helpful and inspiring. Thanks to my 11th-grade Literature teacher, who kept me after class one day and encouraged me to continue writing, I am most definitely intrinsically motivated. I am now in my late 50’s and have continued to write in some capacity ever since. I have been very modestly published in a few magazines for free but now am pursuing the idea of writing for pay into retirement and beyond. Hence, my following you and your sites.

By: Sarah Waldock

Sarah Waldock — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:19:36 +0000

I suspect that there are those of us who have got to the point of making a slim living from writing who balance writing what we must, and writing the things which are commercially popular. And yet … if I stopped enjoying writing, even the things more commercially popular, I think I’d give it up as a career and pursue only what I wanted to write.

By: David

David — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:20:07 +0000

I write to know what I am, to make connections I don’t make except by reflecting while writing. Ideas, memories, imagination, unanswered questions all combine to offer more completed stories than life seemed to give before writing them. To slow down my headlong living and write deepens my mind, I find.

By: Nicole Bianchi

Nicole Bianchi — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:07:06 +0000

In reply to Shruti. Hi, Shruti! Wow, I am honored to be called your Rilke. I am so happy the article inspired you.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:02:14 +0000

To answer Rilke’s question, I would not die if I stop writing. But I will be choked. And I think that’s what he asked. Near death-like feeling.
Thank you for sharing this article, Nicole. You are my Rilke (I hope I become Kappus)

By: Rod Griffiths

Rod Griffiths — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:48:08 +0000

I agree it is a tough question as to whether I should call myself a writer. For me it came down to this — many people say that everyone has a book in them, but I’ve never heard anyone say that everyone has two books in them, so when I finished the second book I decided that it was time to call myself a writer. (Side Effect – Rod Griffiths; Aimless Fear – Rod Griffiths)

By: Michelle monet

Michelle monet — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:07:05 +0000

In reply to Nerdy Creator.

YES!!!!! To stay connected to the “WHY” we write I think is key. It can NOT be for money.heheh. I just published my 3rd book and I’m so darn proud. I’m moving on to book 4 and 5 now. My goal is to not look back, just forward to my next creative endeavor.

http://www.michellemonet.com