I forget who it was who said that writing was the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. My own favorite is: Writing is easy. First, you clean behind the refrigerator...
Seriously, I'm a tech writer and sometimes-other-stuff-writer, and it's no joke: I struggle constantly with a desire to do ANYTHING but write. I have a pile of story/poem ideas about which I've done *nothing*, sort of waiting for that perfectly inspired moment. And yet I know --from experience -- that just putting words down on screen or page on a daily basis makes a difference. Sooner or later, you'll have pieces that can become a whole. Or put another way, the infinite number of monkeys in your mind will write SOMETHING. :-}
Go easier on yourself, tho' -- find a way to make a regular writing time something to look forward to, rather than a dreary buckling-down (says she who also struggles for self-discipline and structure against her rebellious, spoiled inner child). Maybe every day will be hard to manage, but a time slot every day that gets used for working out body or words...?
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Date: 2003-08-11 04:22 pm (UTC)Seriously, I'm a tech writer and sometimes-other-stuff-writer, and it's no joke: I struggle constantly with a desire to do ANYTHING but write. I have a pile of story/poem ideas about which I've done *nothing*, sort of waiting for that perfectly inspired moment. And yet I know --from experience -- that just putting words down on screen or page on a daily basis makes a difference. Sooner or later, you'll have pieces that can become a whole. Or put another way, the infinite number of monkeys in your mind will write SOMETHING. :-}
Go easier on yourself, tho' -- find a way to make a regular writing time something to look forward to, rather than a dreary buckling-down (says she who also struggles for self-discipline and structure against her rebellious, spoiled inner child). Maybe every day will be hard to manage, but a time slot every day that gets used for working out body or words...?