Words (Unh!) What are they good for?
Feb. 11th, 2009 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookish_dragonRight now, writing for me is a hard struggle. I don't ever seem to find the motivation for it, and the actual putting words on paper/the screen is like pulling teeth. It's hard, and I doubt just about every letter I write. So why do I write?
I get ideas, sure. I don't have the skills to pull any of them off right now, but the ideas are there. Even if they are blatantly cribbed from other sources (as I noticed again when I looked over my list of ideas for NaNo 2006). I keep investing in notebooks and pens, knowing I don't need special things to write. I just need paper and a pen, not a 15E-notebook and green pens. But I like the feeling of having something that is just for writing.
But am I writing in the hopes of getting published one day, or just so I can point to a large stack of manuscripts, which I can let other people read without embarrassment? I am very uncertain about what I want to accomplish, causing me to flounder in my writing. Hoot thinks I should just write for the sake of it, and I agree, but I still think I need a goal. Something to work towards. (After I beat my procrastination with a large stick, that is.)
I get ideas, sure. I don't have the skills to pull any of them off right now, but the ideas are there. Even if they are blatantly cribbed from other sources (as I noticed again when I looked over my list of ideas for NaNo 2006). I keep investing in notebooks and pens, knowing I don't need special things to write. I just need paper and a pen, not a 15E-notebook and green pens. But I like the feeling of having something that is just for writing.
But am I writing in the hopes of getting published one day, or just so I can point to a large stack of manuscripts, which I can let other people read without embarrassment? I am very uncertain about what I want to accomplish, causing me to flounder in my writing. Hoot thinks I should just write for the sake of it, and I agree, but I still think I need a goal. Something to work towards. (After I beat my procrastination with a large stick, that is.)
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Date: 2010-07-07 02:10 pm (UTC)February 11, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I was out searching for blogs relating to writing and came across yours. I suffer the same writing sin of procrastination when life is not getting in my way. I always have tons of stories floating around in my head but sorting the garbage from the useable is always a challenge. Finally selecting one, I’ll flow through the beginning until coming to a screeching halt with no clue what should happen next. I then postpone going back to it all the while annoyed with myself for doing so.
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writerofthereal said,
February 11, 2009 at 5:28 pm
The pain of writing is the beauty of writing! If it were that easy, everyone would be a best selling author. I will now quote Tom Hanks from “A League of Their Own”
“…the HARD is what makes it GREAT.”
Keep writing…get it out…on paper. Even if it never amounts to anything, it will empty your head and make room for the great ideas to come. =)