Life Is The Only Style I Need
• Marcus Destorm

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Asked what I wanted from my gift of writing, my reply at that time was silent. As time went by and more and more stories were written, checked and stored on hard disk, the question started to burn hard in my brain.
For a lot of writer’s, whether published or unpublished, it is vital for them to receive global recognition for the work they have produced, while for those few that write for writing’s sake enjoy the sweet taste from completing that master piece that they can call art.
My aim in writing IS to someday become published by a reputable and serious publishing house, whether this is in my home country or abroad, it doesn't’t really matter. As for what I want from my gift, that is something else.
Living for the moment is all well and good, but to live in the moment while creating a written piece of work, that is the greatest feeling ever to take hold of me. Putting together words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into pages is the only skill and vice that I have in the life that envelopes me. To me writing is everything - and more.
When I write, the outside world is kept at bay, until such a time as it enters my domain, then it is confronted with my undivided attention. Writing is a drug and completion is the wild surging buzz that thrusts itself through every narrow vein within my entire body. There is no substitute for the real deal, nor is there a shortcut to the acquired taste that it needs in which to benefit from the craving. Either you have or you don’t.
Very few writers become millionaires overnight from the writing of a single book, though it has been known to happen throughout the world. Money is sometimes a necessity to a writer or author, especially if that writer wishes to make a career from a hobby that he/she does on a day-to-day basis. Then there is fame. Fame can be looked upon as a blessing or a curse; a blessing because the writer of the few has finally reached the audience that they have been writing all this time to show their work, but a curse in another way because the people you never wanted to recognize you start popping out of the woodwork and finally start wanting to be around you.
To live a normal life style with peace of mind would suit me more than to live in the fast paced champagne and caviar society that offers only arrogance and bitterness against those below them in the lower classes (Whoops There goes my knighthood).
Believe me when I say: “Living a decent and honest life with the people I love, the people that love me, the stories I write and the buzz that I get out of writing them, is by far the only true lifestyle for me.”


© Marcus De Storm March 2003
marcusdestorm@hotmail.com
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