The Thigh Bone’s Connected to the Hip Bone-Eventually

[kimmiepoppins]

Originally published at Kimberly Sabatini. You can comment here or there.

There are days when I’m completely convinced that this whole book thing is a fluke. Although I hear I’m not alone. It appears that if you’re a writer, then you’re very familiar with this thing called a self-sabatoging lack of belief. It’s what we do-it’s inescapable-just part

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[ext_995100]

I feel you, girl. I'm revising and it is hard to get back in the groove (I took a month off to focus on college-y things).

I think at my worst, I wonder why I even bother writing - no one will ever like my work besides me (my mom thinks I curse too much in the first two pages, LOL, she hasn't seen the rest of the novel thank goodness!) and that even if I self publish no one would ever bother to pick it up. At my best...or magic moment...is when I think about what I want to say (or the characters say) and it comes out. It may not be perfect. It may not be the best thing ever, but it works, it clicks, it makes sense. Even if I have to go back and edit later, it makes sense.

P.S. Thank you for all your help (re:agentythings) :) I appreciate it.

[kimmiepoppins]

You are very welcome. I'm not sure if we crazy writers will ever get over the nerves and fear, but the best thing we can do is share those moments--like vampires--they hate the light LOL!

[quilynn]

My novel is almost a year and a half old now, and I'm still mucking around in the beginning (so the back story at least is really solid... does that count for anything?). Someday, I keep telling myself, someday this mucking stage will end and I will be able to progress into the middle... I have a plot outline, just can't seem to move ahead.

But I'm loving it. LOVING it. All I want to do is write all the time. Sometimes I get those moments you mentioned where I can see how putting this detail here is going to make this other thing more meaningful when I finally get to that part. It's so cool. But then, I start thinking about how I'm going to make this other thing happen without it being really contrived and I get overwhelmed.

Muck. Muck. Muck.

I'm glad to hear this sort of thing happens to people who've actually finished something because, honestly, I've never even gotten through a whole short story.

[kimmiepoppins]

You are adorable. What I heard when you were talking is that you LOVE what you're doing. That is the reason we write. And I know we have goals to be published and to be a "success" but I like to think that if you are loving what you're doing then you've already won and the rest is the icing on the muck! Hang in there and never lose that feeling that you're the most important audience for everything you write. ((((hugs))))