Nobody said the narrow roads had to be so hard

[aria624]

"There is no wide road which leads to the muses." - Prospertius

I've spent my whole life wanting to be a writer.

I wrote a book when I was six about a clown named Bubbles who was kidnapped and saved by her cat, Sprinkles.

I would get ridiculously excited when we had creative writing assignments in school, and never failed to get an "A" on them.

When I

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[chiordarkchi]

I wish I felt comfortable just telling people that I'm trying to write something. If I told Joel, I'm afraid he would just say that it was a waste of time. I'm not writing to try to actually get something published. I'm doing it for the mental stimulation.

And I completely understand not being able to find the words to start a story. I have to force out the first couple chapters and then come back to them later and refine them into something worth reading. After that, it flows a bit better. But I'm great at seeing the high points of a story, I'm not so good at seeing the beginning and the transitions, which makes it hard for me to get things going.