I was really hoping that Hickman would become a writer. He has a gift. He should be writing. But he won’t. He’s showing us why many gifted people amount to absolutely nothing when others, with a much more modest gift, achieve a lot.
This isn’t about housing or region. He fantasizes about writing but he isn’t writing. Creative work is like any other work. You need to get up every day and grind. Go at it in tiny, frustrating, annoying bits. Learn to enjoy the process because the reward is far away and possibly nowhere.
Clearly, much of it is temperamental. Hickman needs to get the hyperactivity under control before he can create anything. But he’s making it about “society” and has zero insight into his own limitations.
It’s a shame. We’ve lost a writer in him.
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