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Day Twenty, Nano and its variations
Nov. 20th, 2012 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
faradI confess - I have not been as successful as I wanted. Real Life has managed to obstruct my best-lad plans to get stuff written, especially this past week.
Perhaps because of that, some of the comments in this post "Writing Ain't Like Raking the Lawn" really hit home, things like:
"People often ask how we writers find the time. The answer is we often don't, or if we do it is expensive. If you tell someone, "I can't make it today, I have to work at my day job," they'll have no problem with it. If you tell someone, "I can't do that right now, I'm writing," they'll often get angry. This is largely because many people see writing in the same way they see any hobby. So sometimes we decide writing is too expensive in terms of our friendships, but then we resent being made to choose."
I find myself, especially going into a holiday weekend, already wondering how many times I'm going to sit down to try to write something only to be forced to choose between that and something else that demands my attention. Not that I don't love seeing my family, which I do. But writing does often take a backseat to other things.
Here's another quote that I think is pertinent: "For those of us called to write, it is a fundamental element of how we self-identify. It's a cause of which we are a part. We are activists of the written word; whether successful or not, we are driven to communicate, to entertain, to provoke. We are the conveyors of ideas, perpetually lost and happiest in the what-ifs."
the 'what-if's definitely apply to writing fanfic!
Perhaps because of that, some of the comments in this post "Writing Ain't Like Raking the Lawn" really hit home, things like:
"People often ask how we writers find the time. The answer is we often don't, or if we do it is expensive. If you tell someone, "I can't make it today, I have to work at my day job," they'll have no problem with it. If you tell someone, "I can't do that right now, I'm writing," they'll often get angry. This is largely because many people see writing in the same way they see any hobby. So sometimes we decide writing is too expensive in terms of our friendships, but then we resent being made to choose."
I find myself, especially going into a holiday weekend, already wondering how many times I'm going to sit down to try to write something only to be forced to choose between that and something else that demands my attention. Not that I don't love seeing my family, which I do. But writing does often take a backseat to other things.
Here's another quote that I think is pertinent: "For those of us called to write, it is a fundamental element of how we self-identify. It's a cause of which we are a part. We are activists of the written word; whether successful or not, we are driven to communicate, to entertain, to provoke. We are the conveyors of ideas, perpetually lost and happiest in the what-ifs."
the 'what-if's definitely apply to writing fanfic!