In this final summary, in this conclusion
in this extroduction
and yes, that is a word that I've just made up
but I can do that because I'm a writer
I would like to stress
that writing is something...
it's for everybody.
It's not just for me
and people with my amazing haircut
it is for absolutely everybody.
It is for you.
That, whatever the outcome
of your writing career
whatever your accomplishments, whatever success you have
the most important thing
would be that you had had a writing career.
Writing will be your best friend.
If your life is turning to rubbish
as sometimes life does
if you are a writer, you can immediately step
into another world of your own creation.
You can lose yourself in a world
where this world
for the time that you are writing
does not exist.
And believe me, that can be an enormous comfort.
You will benefit immeasurably.
Most of the people that I know who have started writing
have become addicted to it.
They might not necessarily be published writers
but the actual act of writing
gives them a huge dimension in their life
which is easily as powerful as meditation techniques
which is a meditation technique in itself.
You are concentrating upon a single thing
which is the act of creating something in words.
But also you might get publishable work out of it
that can transform your life materially as well.
There are so many benefits to writing
and I really want you to allow yourself to share them.
I cannot tell you
how much richer my own life has been
since becoming a writer 40 years ago.
I can't imagine what it would have been like
if I hadn't done that.
And I urge you to do exactly the same thing
to open yourself up to the limitless opportunity
the limitless complexity
that a life in writing will allow you.
So, in conclusion, I would like to say
that please, please write responsibly
and also beware of dodgy adverbs
as in, "'Come on', he barked doggedly."
And further to that
to always stop when the fun stops.
Now, I want every one of you
to get out there and to write me
a better world
because this one
is completely f--
I have been Alan Moore
and this has been my BBC Maestro course
on writing and storytelling.