Well, you aren't alone. Everyone gets burned out now and then. Take some time off if you need to, rediscover your reasons for writing, and come back when you're ready. Or, if you have the energy, I'd look forward to seeing your experiments with the medium. Or you can do both.
I think there's a balance to be found between writing for an audience and writing for yourself, and I commend you for trying to find it.
I go through this like, once per year. I have a LiveJournal identity crisis and not only do I feel this urge to re-invent my journal, but I almost compulsively feel the need to write an entry just like this one.
I KNOW! I've done this like, how many times now? *sigh* I don't know, it's hard to explain. It's like, if I write just whenever I want to throw something up on LJ, then I find myself flipping back through them and thinking most of them are shit. If I make myself be patient and only write something of substance that I can be proud of, I feel like I'm never writing anything in my journal. I think it's the latter of those mentalities that I need to break: that it's ok if my f-list is abreast of where I am and what I'm doing all the time. Not everything has to go on LiveJournal.
I can sympathize - my LJ has changed a lot over the years, and still goes through a lot of "write-a-lot/write-a-little" phases. My guess is that you are and are a bit alike, in that we both feel the need for a certain consistency in our daily lives, and we view having a journal as a means to that end. But, yeah, there comes a time when you've gotta do what makes you happy, and if that means trying something completely different, then that's a good way to go.
There might be a nugget of truth in that since my life is anything but consistent by virtue of my profession. However, I've always prided my self in my adaptablity and bore easily with general routine, which is why I've never felt cut-out for highly structured environs. Maybe I need a bit more consistency, routine, and structure than I like to admit. :)
I think you and I suffer from a similar disease when it comes to writing. We agonize too much on being clear and succinct when sometimes the best writing is not so straight-forward, but roundabout.... if that makes sense?
The fact that I continue to use THE STYLE despite the bellyache'n of a marginally respectable minority is one of the few things that convinces me I haven't completely lost my spirit and sold my soul for LiveJournal comments.
i ain't bellyached in a long time! but the fact that i continue to do so periodically is one of the few things that convinces me i love you.
i think you maybe would've stuck with it for about three weeks, actually, if paul and i hadn't complained so much initially. you sure taught me an LJ-lesson.
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I think there's a balance to be found between writing for an audience and writing for yourself, and I commend you for trying to find it.
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that comment means absolutely nothing other than to say...just what it did.
come to kc. i miss you.
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I think you and I suffer from a similar disease when it comes to writing. We agonize too much on being clear and succinct when sometimes the best writing is not so straight-forward, but roundabout.... if that makes sense?
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i know what you need, man. you need to get rid of this style of yours. then everything will get better.
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but i figure you knew that already.
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i think you maybe would've stuck with it for about three weeks, actually, if paul and i hadn't complained so much initially. you sure taught me an LJ-lesson.
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