Tonight we're talking about a creative life, and tonight I'm going to specifically（明确地） talk about a creative life as it pertains（适合） to writing fiction. My name is Charlie Donnelly. I'm a thriller writer. My first novel was published in 2017, and I've written one novel per year since then with my eighth thriller due（预期的） to hit bookstore shelves（搁板） next summer. My books have been translated（ 翻译） into 20 languages across 40 countries, and I just agreed to a new multi-book deal（买卖） with my publisher（出版者） that will have me writing books for the next many years. So I am entrenched（确立） in the writing world.
And so tonight, as we talk about a creative life, I'm going to talk about the big lie（谎言） that all writers tell. So the big lie that all writers tell is that writers love to write. Writers love to write. Every writer says this. And all my writing friends say it, and I say it constantly（不断地）. And if you have a favorite author, you've heard them say it, or if they're getting ready to release（释放） a new novel, they put out promotional material where they give you a description of the book, and then they'll write something like this.
I hope you love reading this book as much as I loved writing it. And now there's a lot of versions（版本） of this. There's a lot of different variations（变化） of this because writers don't always, don't only love letting you know how much we love writing, but we want to know, we want you to know how much fun we have writing. So this is another one we use. I love this one. I had a blast（爆炸） writing this book, and I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.
We've all heard this. So to the average reader of fiction and to the typical thriller or mystery（神秘） fan, the image that these statements give is of writers sitting down at their desks every morning, happily typing（打字） along with big smiles on their faces without a care in the world. I mean, that's me every morning. That's me. I mean, I sit and I smile and I just have fun. Do you believe that? Because I'm about to, I'm about to dispel（驱散） that myth（神话）.
I hope you don't believe that. So tonight I'm going to dispel that myth. Writers don't always love to write. And a creative life in the form of writing fiction is not always filled with joy（欢乐） and bliss（ 狂喜）. And for sure, writers don't always love writing. So let me, I'm going to try to convince（使确信） you of this just with two quick questions and one analogy（类似）.
So the first question is, if writers love writing as much as we claim（声称）, how come we're so happy when we're finished doing it? So my first thought every morning when I get through my thousand words and I'm finished writing is, thank God I'm done with that nonsense（胡说）. Thank God that's over with. And as we talk about joy and bliss tonight of writers, if you want to see pure（纯粹的） joy（欢乐） and bliss（ 狂喜）, find a thriller writer who's just finished a 400 page manuscript（手稿）. What you will find is the equivalent（等价物） of a kid on Christmas morning times 10 on steroids for a month. And why are we so happy?
Because we don't have to write for a while（一段时间）. Because we can take a break from doing this thing we claim to love to do so much. And if writers love writing so much, how come we so oftentimes procrastinate doing it? Hey, writers, if you don't know, if there's any writers in the room you do know, but writers are the best procrastinators in the world. Okay（好）? We will literally（照字面地） do anything other than sit down and write our novels.