Walking the Tightrope--How Authors Angst Over Their Work

[a_r_williams]

*note: Partly inspired by rippatton's The Wrong Person to Ask

I know you do it. Hell, I do it. You just finish reading a book and you sit there stunned for a minute, the way a deer is stunned when the lights on your car hits it in the eyes. Then you marvel at how great the author is and go--" I want to write a book like that. "

Or it's the reverse. You fling

Comments

[jongibbs]

Lol. I never thought about it like that, but you're right :)

[a_r_williams]

I think the back and forth is one thing that adds to writer frustration. You have to judge a piece of work in so many different ways.

[keireland]

"You just finish reading a book and you sit there stunned for a minute, the way a deer is stunned when the lights on your car hits it in the eyes. Then you marvel at how great the author is

[a_r_williams]

There was a point in time where I wasn't writing. I would think about it every now and then, just wouldn't commit. I have never thought about quitting, but those lulls where you just don't write feel like the same thing.

But I'm back, and commited more than I've ever been before. There comes a point where you have to go for your dreams instead of saying "I'll do it someday!" or "I'll do it tomorrow!"

Those types of thoughts will see years fly by without anything coming from it. If you want to write, you have to commit to it.

Maybe slowly at first. Just don't quit.