George Orwell's Writing

The article talks of George Orwell’s motivation behind writing, including the uglier sides of it. Orwell speaks of many points for the thought process of an author. It may be a tiring, draining process but is fueled by love and passion, though the kind of passion can vary. He states writing should never seem like task, or chore to do. However, it is not wholly a selfless endeavour; writing by some merit is driven by vanity, a sense of need to be remember or leave an impact of the world. Personal conflicts are a tightrope to be balanced on in writing, for the personality and opinions of the author must bleed in and color the words yet not overwhelm and consume the piece. The article states that aesthetic enthusiasm is another force behind the writing, this be the appeal a story brings to a wide audience through beauty within and surrounding the writing. The ways all these clash and blend to create a story, as Orwell says, “It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how they must fluctuate from person to person and from time to time.” Most of all, writing is a creative process that one must love with an intensity, or else what is the point to begin with?

This contradicts Orwell, who says one should, to a degree, focus on the appeal a story needs to bring to a wide audience. Steinbeck builds on the momentum a creative spree can offer and how any attempt lessen it whether this be through editing while writing, focusing solely on the end goal instead the process, or becoming too sentimentally attached to a scene. Unlike Orwell, he states the flaws in this and how writing is a process that impossible to categorize giving a new insight to the process with a simple