HALT! None shall pass.
My writing's come to a dead stop. Meaning, when I sit down to do it, nothing happens. And on those few and far between days lately when it does come out, what ends up on the page doesn't work, or...
Well, let me put this in baseball terms. When a player is struggling to get a hit, he tends to force his swings, and swing at pitches he wouldn't normally swing at. What that player should be doing, is to be patient and wait for his pitch to hit. But of course, when struggling, even when you know to be patient...you can't help but flail a bit. *shrug* Well, that's what my writing is like right now. Everything that's coming out is being..forced, and it ends up not working at all.
A writer who wants me to crit his work and talked incessantly about it to me ever since keeps pussy-footing around giving the bloody thing to me to do the critting. He's in a perpetual state of self editing. There's nothing wrong with self-editing, granted. But when someone starts to tell you the problem's they're having with the story, what they're trying to do, and little character quirks...and they never show you bloody thing...how can one give any good feedback?
Got my first bit of assignment from Amari in over a year. Get my $150 next week, hopefully. Seems the writing I hate is the only kind of writing I'm able to do right now.
Is this to be the sum of my career aspirations? *shrug*
Well, let me put this in baseball terms. When a player is struggling to get a hit, he tends to force his swings, and swing at pitches he wouldn't normally swing at. What that player should be doing, is to be patient and wait for his pitch to hit. But of course, when struggling, even when you know to be patient...you can't help but flail a bit. *shrug* Well, that's what my writing is like right now. Everything that's coming out is being..forced, and it ends up not working at all.
A writer who wants me to crit his work and talked incessantly about it to me ever since keeps pussy-footing around giving the bloody thing to me to do the critting. He's in a perpetual state of self editing. There's nothing wrong with self-editing, granted. But when someone starts to tell you the problem's they're having with the story, what they're trying to do, and little character quirks...and they never show you bloody thing...how can one give any good feedback?
Got my first bit of assignment from Amari in over a year. Get my $150 next week, hopefully. Seems the writing I hate is the only kind of writing I'm able to do right now.
Is this to be the sum of my career aspirations? *shrug*