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pegkerr ([personal profile] pegkerr) wrote2004-09-22 09:28 pm

Burning question in the back of my mind

What if I never finish this book? What if I never write a book again?

(Do I have to give the necklace back?)

[identity profile] aome.livejournal.com 2004-09-23 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Just checking - you had a post the other day where you just needed to vent and didn't want reassurances. :)

My view is - even if you never wrote another book again, you'd find something else to do. You seem both very resourceful and creative. I know you identify yourself as a writer, but it doesn't mean it's the *only* thing you can do. And even if you don't finish this book, it doesn't mean you won't get struck by another idea down the road, and write that story instead. Or write this story at another time, when it speaks to you better.

I don't know how you felt about the first two, while you were writing them. How does this compare, in terms of your attitude about it? Do you feel maybe you're trying too hard, that there's too much sense of "I have to do this"? Or did you feel that way about the others, too? It just seems to me that the sense of pressure isn't helping. Did you struggle the same to hear Elias' voice in the beginning? Or the voices in EHR? I ask just because although I know you've put in a lot of work on this project already, if it's not clicking in your head, does that mean perhaps another project would be better? Or is this common in book-writing and just needs to be worked through?

(Side note: Start sending your daughters to bed 15 minutes earlier for every time they interrupt you while you're writing. I suspect they'll stop that right off.)

[identity profile] aome.livejournal.com 2004-09-23 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
And, btw, I agree with the others that you'll always be a writer. But that I'm sure there are other contributions, other creations inside you as well.