So I'm putting it out there. The most absurdly neurotic part of myself wonders if there will be a mass unfriending as a result ("Peg says she's not going to write fiction anymore??! ...why have I have been wasting my valuable time reading her stupid blathering journal? *Defriends immediately*") But fortunately the wiser and mature part of myself realizes that this fear is neurotic; in fact it's absolutely ridiculous.
*gentle snort* I guess if it were all about the writing I'd have to unfriend myself. It has been an awfully long dry spell. The ideas are still there, but for some reason the lust is gone. (Not English 'lust' but German, meaning something like "desire, take joy in, delight in"--don't have an exact translation but my brain knows what I mean by it. There are some German words that stick with me, I find, years after being an exchange student and learning to think and dream in that language, that better express a feeling than English, at least for me. And wasn't that last bit a painfully convoluted sentence? *softly snorks at self*)
There are seasons, and it's limiting to tie your identity to such a thing. Creativity has so very many forms, and novel-writing is only one of them.
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Date: 2008-01-03 09:56 pm (UTC)*gentle snort*
I guess if it were all about the writing I'd have to unfriend myself. It has been an awfully long dry spell. The ideas are still there, but for some reason the lust is gone. (Not English 'lust' but German, meaning something like "desire, take joy in, delight in"--don't have an exact translation but my brain knows what I mean by it. There are some German words that stick with me, I find, years after being an exchange student and learning to think and dream in that language, that better express a feeling than English, at least for me. And wasn't that last bit a painfully convoluted sentence? *softly snorks at self*)
There are seasons, and it's limiting to tie your identity to such a thing. Creativity has so very many forms, and novel-writing is only one of them.