Sigh. Some days the writing is easy-ish. Some days it’s hard. Very hard. Today is one of those days when every word I write sucks. Utterly sucks. I keep telling myself that writing crap is better than writing nothing at all—you can fix crap. But honestly, I shouldn’t be letting myself get away with that anymore.
I’m at that in-between stage that http://www.melthegreatest.blogspot.com/ posted about on her blog a little while back. I’m not a newbie anymore, but I’m not published. I’ve been given feedback and encouragement by both published authors and editors, but all the pieces haven’t fitted into the puzzle yet.
I’ll get there-that’s something I’m determined to do, but sometimes the steps needed to take your writing up to the next level seem mighty steep.
I’ll get there-that’s something I’m determined to do, but sometimes the steps needed to take your writing up to the next level seem mighty steep.
So, to perk myself up I'm going to post some beefcake.
Any takers?
2 comments:
Ah, Antonio Sabato, Jr. ::happy sigh:: He was the inspiration for one of my favorite characters.
Anyway, keep at it, gal. You know I have my fingers crossed for you!
I don't know. I'm on my ninth published novel and I'm still giving myself permission to write crap. I think I probably still will when I'm on my thirtieth. You have to get the stuff down. The trick, to me, is to make sure you've got rock-solid characters and also to know how to fix things in revisions. And all of that comes with experience...which you are getting now.
You'll have a lightbulb moment one day and you'll feel as if you've taken a leap forward. The thing is that those sudden moments of insight take a LOT of hard work to get to (and a lot of hard work afterwards).
Keep going. No writing is ever wasted.
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