Arrrgghhhh!
I have time to write. I'm in between jobs with a tsunami of work threating me on the horizon. Next week will probably be busy if everything hits like it's threatening. I have all day today and had part of the day yesterday to write and begin my new story. So why am I staring at a blank screen? Whay am I reading over old stories for inspiration? Why did I last night read the first couple chapters of Pride and Prejudice so I could get to the part where Darcy realizes he's fallen in love with Elizabeth? I'm avoiding like a plague writing. I'm angry, frustrated, about to tear out my hair. I'm considering two stories to write. I want to do my superheroes story. I know this will be fairly fast because not too much research is involved. But I really want to work on my timetravel but I'll have to devote mega-time to researching England in the Middle Ages. Arrggghh!!!!
Good news on Dark Earth. I heard from two critque partners who are enjoying the new story. One of them had read it in one sitting when she had planned to read it over the course of a few weeks. The best compliment someone can give on your writing. I guess I'm also dreading all the edits to Dark Earth that will have to be done before I can send it off. I'm so close and can see the finish line, but there's a lot of boulders still in my way and I'm not looking forward to climbing them and skinning my knees and bruising my body anymore. But that's the sacrifices we all make to write. The internal knocks and scrapes and cuts from traversing the rough terrain on the way to a completed story and, fingers crossed, publication.
Maybe that's why I'm avoiding the new story. I've been down this path before and already I'm encountering pitfalls and alligators. My husband liked the first person narrative rather than the third person I'm doing for the superheroes tale. I guess that's the other issue. I need to decide what I think will work best before I start. And I'm a Libra. Indecision is our biggest hurdle to overcome and mine is blocking the whole path and I can't see the top of it to figure out how to climb it.
I'm hopeless. Completely hopeless.
Good news on Dark Earth. I heard from two critque partners who are enjoying the new story. One of them had read it in one sitting when she had planned to read it over the course of a few weeks. The best compliment someone can give on your writing. I guess I'm also dreading all the edits to Dark Earth that will have to be done before I can send it off. I'm so close and can see the finish line, but there's a lot of boulders still in my way and I'm not looking forward to climbing them and skinning my knees and bruising my body anymore. But that's the sacrifices we all make to write. The internal knocks and scrapes and cuts from traversing the rough terrain on the way to a completed story and, fingers crossed, publication.
Maybe that's why I'm avoiding the new story. I've been down this path before and already I'm encountering pitfalls and alligators. My husband liked the first person narrative rather than the third person I'm doing for the superheroes tale. I guess that's the other issue. I need to decide what I think will work best before I start. And I'm a Libra. Indecision is our biggest hurdle to overcome and mine is blocking the whole path and I can't see the top of it to figure out how to climb it.
I'm hopeless. Completely hopeless.
posted by J.T. Bock at 10:55 AM
2 Comments:
Hon, I love you.
SHUT UP AND WRITE.
;) Just get out of your own way. Give yourself a set time limit and get SOMETHING on the page. I don't care what IT is....
and then send it to me ;)
Been there. Doesn't matter what you write....just do something rather than stare at the page. It can be total crap....it really is allowed.
Yeah, yeah, I hear ya! And I'm doing it now ... but I'd like to finish the edits to Dark Earth. Maybe if someone would send their critique (clears throat) I can move on and send it out. :P
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