May I bare my soul to you and get a cheque after?

Should I write with my soul or just write for the sake of it? Should I put emotion in my writing or should I become a robot ? These are the questions which arose whilst thinking about this content. For a piece of writing to be anything, it must evoke the emotion of a writer; it must contain elements of the writers themselves; it must give the reader an opportunity to understand the writers frame of mind. John Cheever, was a bi-sexual man in a heterosexual marriage. He had the works, the suburban lifestyle, the porch, the 2.4 children, but who gives a shit about that? Would Cheever have been as successful if he just wrote about things he knew, or things he was feeling? I believe in the ‘Country Husband’, these feelings are portrayed perfectly. A man, with everything a sensible human would consider perfect, but on the inside a fire burns. He’s a disgruntled soul who wants excitement, who wants the new, so he goes after a young babysitter ( Porn 101) .When I write a narrative I bare my soul; my character although created, is conjured from various parts of my personality. As I stated in a previous blog, ‘art is a copy of a copy of a form’, according to Plato. With this we can establish that although writers create, their creativity is from somewhere not from our own genius intellect ( as sad as it is to admit) to conclude, I disagree with this statement, whilst reading something, I personally, love to think the writers tears and soul are in it, rather than an idea of a holiday to Bahamas or a new car.