i want to paint with words
I want to be a writer. I want to share thoughts and ideas and pure poetry of the soul, with anyone who would like to hear it... but i also want to be a writer so that i don't have to get up and go to work 5 days a week for the rest of my life.
Sometimes i wonder if the latter is the real (and only) reason that i actually want this new career path.
i dont believe i'm particularly good at writing.
scratch that.
I believe that if I have something specific to write about, something that actually means something to me, that I may actually have a bit of skill in putting words down eloquently enough to engage with a reader. When I have some connection with what I am writing about then it shows me that I may not be such a hack after all.
It is the idea generation and execution that I seem to struggle with. Ask me about an ex boyfriend and I can write pages and pages, fill notebooks even (it has been done repeatedly), but ask me to create a fictional story and I may have a few ideas but I don't know how to execute them correctly. It all comes down to the old saying "write what you know." But what if I dont know anything, at least nothing that anyone else would want to read about? How am I meant to write then?
Sometimes i wonder if the latter is the real (and only) reason that i actually want this new career path.
i dont believe i'm particularly good at writing.
scratch that.
I believe that if I have something specific to write about, something that actually means something to me, that I may actually have a bit of skill in putting words down eloquently enough to engage with a reader. When I have some connection with what I am writing about then it shows me that I may not be such a hack after all.
It is the idea generation and execution that I seem to struggle with. Ask me about an ex boyfriend and I can write pages and pages, fill notebooks even (it has been done repeatedly), but ask me to create a fictional story and I may have a few ideas but I don't know how to execute them correctly. It all comes down to the old saying "write what you know." But what if I dont know anything, at least nothing that anyone else would want to read about? How am I meant to write then?