This is a YouTube video titled "Successful writers play the long game." containing a monologue or talk recorded in September 2024. The speaker discusses the longevity and enduring nature of writing as a craft compared to other professions, emphasizing the importance of viewing writing as a multi-decade pursuit rather than a short-term goal.
If you want to make it as a writer, you're not playing a year long game, you are playing a decade long game, or ideally a multi decade long game. That is one of the reasons why I love writing so much is because unlike athletics or in many ways business, you don't see CEOs stay CEO until the day they die. But very often you will see prolific writers write until the day they die. And I love writing because it is such an infinite game. I know that until I die or my brain goes, I'm going to write and I can write and there's nothing that's really holding me back from that. It's not like being an athlete where past the age of 30 or maybe 35, you just can't do it anymore. That's what makes writing very different. And so you have to internalize that and go, this isn't a game that I'm focused on winning in 365 days. This is a game I'm focused on winning over the next 30 or 40 or 50 years. And when you elongate the time horizon like that, you remove so much of the pressure off of yourself.
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