If they can do it...

A wise writer once said to me
"There's no such thing as writer's block.
Only writer's embarrassment."

Words to live and write by.

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Sunday, January 30, 2005

In which I try to form better habits

Well, I haven't been so good about keeping up with my writing resolutions. I do a lot of writing at work, and I guess that's just enough to keep the inner muse at bay. I am wondering if I don't want to move into non-fiction, because I know I'm good at it and it kind of circumvents the pesky little plot issue. I've had some interesting ideas in that arena. We'll see if anything comes of it. I have more ideas than I do hours to write, and, of course, pinning the ideas down and getting something useful out of them is difficult. I'm still wanting to the PG Wodehouse fairy tale thing. I still want to do the "choose your own" growing story thing. I just really want to get out of the mental place where I think everything I write is just stupid. I've been there a lot this month for various reasons, and it's probably why I'm falling down with the resolutions. I don't have the momentum and, well, public shame of NaNo to keep me going if I hate it anymore. So I avoid, and do other stuff. Been spending a lot of time reading, or thinking about reading, or doing just about anything other than writing.

So, how do I get out of this? Dunno. Just write, I guess. This is step one, anyway. I won't be doing the full fifteen minutes, but hopefully this will break me out of the inertia trap and get me into the momentum zone....

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