Well, not in any place that isn't "members only". Most of what I've written and posted is naughty Haiku. I've got two different projects in production right now, plus two more on the back burner. I've been thinking of posting some of the "in progress" stuff here as I work on it, but I need to edit first.
My biggest dream. Heh. My biggest dream is for my youngest munchkin's cancer to be gone and never ever ever ever ever come back. Unfortunately, making that happen isn't in my control, so I'll just leave that to TPTB.
I guess the question is...do you want to be a writer or do you want to write...?
And, yes, there's definitely a difference. Perhaps you've focused more on the former than the latter, looking at it as a way out, a means to an end, rather than the sometimes long, frustrating, sometimes seemingly thankless process that it is. It won't work if you approach it with one eye on fame and admiration--that's why you've tried to rush yourself, and also why rushing yourself didn't work. You can't look at being a writer as the one thing that will finally make everything all right. That's too much pressure for both you and your muse. It has to be about the love of your characters/subjects and of the process of writing itself, not about the things you hope it will give you.
Ideas are ideas; they mean nothing unless you act on them. Start making notes, character sketches, outlines, whatever--you might find, as I have, that ideas beget ideas, and a framework for something--possibly not even what you expected--may just pop up around it.
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And, as is usually the case, you are right. I have been putting too much weight on the Milo story--so much that I wasn't allowing it to progress at all.
I was at my most prolific when I was at Central, when I didn't even have any comp classes to write for. I was writing because I felt like I was going to explode if I didn't get some of that stuff down on paper.
My writing was to escape my situation, but it was a mental escape, not a financial one.
And, as far as what I want, it's this:
I want to tell my stories well enough that people pay me to hear them.
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I really, truly hope you get your dream.
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And, yes, there's definitely a difference. Perhaps you've focused more on the former than the latter, looking at it as a way out, a means to an end, rather than the sometimes long, frustrating, sometimes seemingly thankless process that it is. It won't work if you approach it with one eye on fame and admiration--that's why you've tried to rush yourself, and also why rushing yourself didn't work. You can't look at being a writer as the one thing that will finally make everything all right. That's too much pressure for both you and your muse. It has to be about the love of your characters/subjects and of the process of writing itself, not about the things you hope it will give you.
Ideas are ideas; they mean nothing unless you act on them. Start making notes, character sketches, outlines, whatever--you might find, as I have, that ideas beget ideas, and a framework for something--possibly not even what you expected--may just pop up around it. ( ... )
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I was at my most prolific when I was at Central, when I didn't even have any comp classes to write for. I was writing because I felt like I was going to explode if I didn't get some of that stuff down on paper.
My writing was to escape my situation, but it was a mental escape, not a financial one.
And, as far as what I want, it's this:
I want to tell my stories well enough that people pay me to hear them.
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