Warning - Rambles Ahead
In all the wandering I do around the ‘net, the rambles through writing forums, blogs, live journals, news sites and wherever else the wanderlust takes me, the common theme that arises again and again and again, is that to be a writer one must write. Stating the obvious, one would think, yet somehow I can never quite apply that to me. Oh, I do write. Endlessly and copiously, in a variety of forms. Journal entries, short stories, the…ta dah… ‘Novel’, fanfic, articles on current affairs… you name it, I compose it. Unfortunately it just doesn’t count when it all takes place inside my mind and never quite makes it on to paper. Or computer screen.
Sheer laziness is probably one factor behind such an inability to produce anything concrete. Lack of motivation is another. Most of the actual physical writing I’ve done has been of the fanfic variety, and because its very nature is to be shared, feedback dependency can have a strangling effect on production. For me, anyhow. I’ve allowed myself to wallow in that trap, stifling all other possible outlets for creativity. It’s time to break free.
In one of those rare moments of resolution - the kind that usually occur somewhere around New Year’s Eve - a decision has been reached. I shall attempt to establish some discipline and actually force myself to produce some amount of wordage on a regular basis. It should be every day, I know. Every single day. But if I made that pronouncement, those of you who know me would be taking bets on just how fast such a resolution would break. So I’m taking the safe way here, and not defining that ‘regular basis’ into anything concrete. It will just be…regular.
So - lj has been renovated in honour of the decision, and I’ve even promised myself I’ll use the cut to limit the distortion my rambles may cause to others’ f-lists. (Next entry!) I’m making no promises that such rambles will contain anything of interest. All I can offer is that I will try to make them comprehensible. I have no idea at this point just what it is I will write - sometimes it may be fic, sometimes it may even be reasonable. It doesn’t really matter as for the first time ever I am not writing for an audience (which is just as well because I probably won’t have one :P ). I am merely writing to establish the habit of writing - to outgrow that need to be ‘motivated’ before putting pen to paper. Or fingers to keyboard. And perhaps, with such a mindset, I can cure myself of that desperate need for feedback that’s always been attached to publication. (Although it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t add that I’ll still love any comments you choose to make!)
So this first entry is really a warning to those few of you who have me on their friends list. I just thought it would be fair to let you know that you are about to be inundated with a stream of (no doubt) mostly unmitigated drivel. Feel free to ignore as usual.
Sheer laziness is probably one factor behind such an inability to produce anything concrete. Lack of motivation is another. Most of the actual physical writing I’ve done has been of the fanfic variety, and because its very nature is to be shared, feedback dependency can have a strangling effect on production. For me, anyhow. I’ve allowed myself to wallow in that trap, stifling all other possible outlets for creativity. It’s time to break free.
In one of those rare moments of resolution - the kind that usually occur somewhere around New Year’s Eve - a decision has been reached. I shall attempt to establish some discipline and actually force myself to produce some amount of wordage on a regular basis. It should be every day, I know. Every single day. But if I made that pronouncement, those of you who know me would be taking bets on just how fast such a resolution would break. So I’m taking the safe way here, and not defining that ‘regular basis’ into anything concrete. It will just be…regular.
So - lj has been renovated in honour of the decision, and I’ve even promised myself I’ll use the cut to limit the distortion my rambles may cause to others’ f-lists. (Next entry!) I’m making no promises that such rambles will contain anything of interest. All I can offer is that I will try to make them comprehensible. I have no idea at this point just what it is I will write - sometimes it may be fic, sometimes it may even be reasonable. It doesn’t really matter as for the first time ever I am not writing for an audience (which is just as well because I probably won’t have one :P ). I am merely writing to establish the habit of writing - to outgrow that need to be ‘motivated’ before putting pen to paper. Or fingers to keyboard. And perhaps, with such a mindset, I can cure myself of that desperate need for feedback that’s always been attached to publication. (Although it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t add that I’ll still love any comments you choose to make!)
So this first entry is really a warning to those few of you who have me on their friends list. I just thought it would be fair to let you know that you are about to be inundated with a stream of (no doubt) mostly unmitigated drivel. Feel free to ignore as usual.