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rockinlibrarian

I Wish I Had a Great Title For This That Would Make You Want to Click But Maybe That's For the Best

Jan 28, 2015 15:45

First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone else whose blogs I "follow," because unless you've posted a review of a relatively new children's or YA book (which I then make note of on my extensive collection development spreadsheet), I most likely have not read your blog for the past month. Unless you're Angie. Angie gets instant-read ( Read more... )

philosophizing, writing, whining

Comments 8

anonymous February 4 2015, 00:33:09 UTC

This is a test, because live journal has a habit of eating my comments.

rockinlibrarian February 4 2015, 01:59:03 UTC

this was Screened (because it was Anonymous) but yes, it came through!

anonymous February 4 2015, 01:05:15 UTC

So, apparently I can't comment if I try to identify myself; I can only comment anonymously. I'm Kim from www.kaippersbach.blogspot.com. (Is there some mutual antipathy between blogger and live journal? Apparently we can't be friends ( ... )

rockinlibrarian February 6 2015, 03:22:44 UTC

LIVEJOURNAL I AM VERY ANGRY WITH YOU FOR TRYING TO SPAM-FOLDER THIS (and apparently others--I'm going to have to search for them now!) COMMENT!

I am glad you persevered and tried to post it anyway. Thank you so much. It's good to know someone knows exactly what I'm going through. I think you're right that I'm not going to be able to do it without outside motivation/peer pressure/critique group activity! I will have to trick myself into signing up for one of those non-November-focused NaNoWriMo alternatives or something.

(Tricking ourselves into doing things is so Howl Jenkins-Pendragon, it makes me happy. In theory. Harder to actually do it).

Same wavelength anonymous February 6 2015, 04:52:22 UTC

This is Lysana from PerC.

Yep, this journal is pretty much how I feel about writing. I read that article you linked (actually when I got to it, then came back and finished yours) and the section you quoted was EXACTLY what I was going to quote in a comment.

I spent ten years Turning it Off.

I started writing again in 2012 and it's been fits and starts, but I've written 140k of novel (two drafts, neither finished and neither especially great) and probably another 50k of short story since then. I have been taking writing and editing classes and even found an awesome online writer's group (actually co-foundED, it's the ladies I blog at Readerlicious with).

And still, I struggle for motivation. I'm too tired. Mentally. Yet I stay up til midnight on the internet or reading a book (less guilt in the latter).

Keep writing! And keep me posted on how it's going. :)

Re: Same wavelength rockinlibrarian March 29 2015, 19:55:41 UTC

Thanks, if you ever come back and see that I've replied! I wish I'd replied sooner!

But it's been almost two months... and it's still not going much of anywhere. :P

Not anonymous! I'm a person! anonymous March 29 2015, 18:17:21 UTC

So many "first of all"s ( ... )

Re: Not anonymous! I'm a person! rockinlibrarian March 29 2015, 19:51:38 UTC

To be honest, since you've been posting every day this month I have to admit you are not QUITE as Instant-Read Privileged as you had been, because sometimes you end up posting more than once before I finally get around to checking! But you're still definitely up there in the "within-three-daysish-Reads" category at least, which beats out most things by weeks and sometimes months! (Though Feedly will only keep something unread on the main feed for 30 days. So sometimes I might lose some of the less-necessary posts entirely if I'm being REALLY lazy about it ( ... )