#amwriting The Love-Hate-Love-Hate-Love-Hate Part of My Writing Process
While I am eagerly anticipating the release of my new book, The Matriarch's Devise, and looking forward to getting into the hands of readers, as usual, I am hard at work on the current WIP.
Yesterday was a good day, an I love this character, did I really write that, it's better than I thought day.
Today, not so much.
As much as I wish I could say I always love my work, I find that my writing process seems to contain a perpetual love-hate-love-hate loop that drives me to the "cliffs of insanity" where I find myself looking down and thinking of jumping off the publishing trail. Then I remember why I #amwriting in the first place and realize that if I don't write, I'll be right back here at the edge of the cliff looking down into an even darker abyss.
So I write and I work through the devastating doubt, ignore the blistering self-criticism, push through the I hate my work days. Not because I'm certain I'll come out on the other side and fall in love with my work again, but because to do anything else is basically unthinkable.
Writing is an art form, but it's also a passion. And there are few emotions as passionate as love and hate. As any artist knows, there is an amazing amount of truth in the song lyric by R&B vocal group The Persuaders. It is indeed "a thin line between love and hate." At least until the final revision.