Confident or Delusional?
All right, all my writerly-inclined friends... Are you confident or delusional?
Colleen Lindsay posted a link to her blog, The Swivet (I found it through Twitter) which then linked to this blog entry by JA Konrath.
I'm kinda in love with it. :-)
I think my two favorite parts are:
"Confident writers work to get the words right.
Delusional writers think they got the words right the first time."
and
"Confident writers know this is a job.
Delusional writers think this is a vacation."
I'm pretty sure I'm not delusional. I love every chance I get to make my work better. I know I need to buckle down even more than I do now to treat this as my career and not just as something I kinda-sorta do sometimes. I know I need to work through the hard-to-work times. And I've discovered, in the past few days, that, ummm... I'm getting better at this.
Not in a "oh my gosh my first drafts are fantabulous, call the presses!" way, but in a "I really don't need that whole paragraph, get rid of it" way. In a "butt in the chair and working" way. I'm more than a little surprised, but I like it.
And I know I can keep learning, and I know I can do better.
And really, that's the best part of all.
Colleen Lindsay posted a link to her blog, The Swivet (I found it through Twitter) which then linked to this blog entry by JA Konrath.
I'm kinda in love with it. :-)
I think my two favorite parts are:
"Confident writers work to get the words right.
Delusional writers think they got the words right the first time."
and
"Confident writers know this is a job.
Delusional writers think this is a vacation."
I'm pretty sure I'm not delusional. I love every chance I get to make my work better. I know I need to buckle down even more than I do now to treat this as my career and not just as something I kinda-sorta do sometimes. I know I need to work through the hard-to-work times. And I've discovered, in the past few days, that, ummm... I'm getting better at this.
Not in a "oh my gosh my first drafts are fantabulous, call the presses!" way, but in a "I really don't need that whole paragraph, get rid of it" way. In a "butt in the chair and working" way. I'm more than a little surprised, but I like it.
And I know I can keep learning, and I know I can do better.
And really, that's the best part of all.