Post by rielle on Apr 12, 2016 15:26:27 GMT -5
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This link unfortunately doesn't take you directly to the shirt I'm talking about... that shirt says "99 compliments and I'm a Rock Star, 1 bad review... I"m gonna shoot myself" about writing.
... I honestly think that must 'speak' at times to any and to every writer's 'condition'. It often speaks to mine, anyway. In the past year I have been struggling, truly struggling with my writing. I haven't finished a single project and that's strange for me, really strange.
TNOT HARROWING...was just that, harrowing, a whole heck of a lot of writing, reading, researching and more writing, reading and researching... all of which created a jumbled mess of a way too long story. It had I think one good idea and then ... exploded... Other stories started and failed to even reach a midpoint. And I always struggle with the midpoints of stories. Then there's the fun of having someone diss a story that's been out there pretty much forever... saying of Blind Beggar... that it was boring, it was bad writing BECAUSE it was all about
Jim being blinded... which I've never thought, or never intended BB should be. SIGH. GROAN. SIGH
Best word I've had recently was also off-handed... about 'Blind Beggar'... reader didn't care for it, didn't think Jim West COULD be effected that way, BUT will never see Miguelito Loveless the same way... so that was a good thing.
This thread is not created to create sympathy for the writer... not really, its just to ... release some pent up 'steam' amongst friends who profoundly understand that creative struggle.
Maybe I'm too thin skinned... but its not the 'trashing' comments that bother me nearly as much as it is the scarcity of any comments at all AND the left-handed so called compliments that occur. [how the heck many rs in occur?, lol]
My friends here have been immensely helpful and patient with me during this struggle. I want to say especially CalGal, Niecie and Diva have helped. It always amazes me to learn something about writing basics or intermediate-level things I never heard in school... not in 16 years of school, mind you. Sigh. Maybe I fell asleep during the grammar and or style lessons? LOL No, its the truth, I learned almost nothing about writing in grade school, high school or college, somehow.
So, here I am crying in my Pepsi... not crying, but yes, I suppose I'm whining. In part this is part and parcel of my clinical depression... I know that... and I'm working on that... I just needed to 'talk' to friends about it. I hope I never diss another writer. I hope anyone who feels I have done that will let me know it. Just last week I dropped out of a writers group on fb because they were going off on fanfic and fanfic writers... noses in the air and the whole elitist bunch of ... nonsense.
Writers need strong egos. yes, I know that. But the support of other writers is also imnsho CRUCIAL.
So, there you have it, my latest lament. Meanwhile I'm trying to write for this month's Camp Nano... they do two summer sessions... April and July. oh and I'm getting ready to get married! [End of July, here at home in OH]
Sorry if I brought your day down my friends, I really needed to get this off my chest. Do you ever feel this down and if so, how do you climb out again?
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This link unfortunately doesn't take you directly to the shirt I'm talking about... that shirt says "99 compliments and I'm a Rock Star, 1 bad review... I"m gonna shoot myself" about writing.
... I honestly think that must 'speak' at times to any and to every writer's 'condition'. It often speaks to mine, anyway. In the past year I have been struggling, truly struggling with my writing. I haven't finished a single project and that's strange for me, really strange.
TNOT HARROWING...was just that, harrowing, a whole heck of a lot of writing, reading, researching and more writing, reading and researching... all of which created a jumbled mess of a way too long story. It had I think one good idea and then ... exploded... Other stories started and failed to even reach a midpoint. And I always struggle with the midpoints of stories. Then there's the fun of having someone diss a story that's been out there pretty much forever... saying of Blind Beggar... that it was boring, it was bad writing BECAUSE it was all about
Jim being blinded... which I've never thought, or never intended BB should be. SIGH. GROAN. SIGH
Best word I've had recently was also off-handed... about 'Blind Beggar'... reader didn't care for it, didn't think Jim West COULD be effected that way, BUT will never see Miguelito Loveless the same way... so that was a good thing.
This thread is not created to create sympathy for the writer... not really, its just to ... release some pent up 'steam' amongst friends who profoundly understand that creative struggle.
Maybe I'm too thin skinned... but its not the 'trashing' comments that bother me nearly as much as it is the scarcity of any comments at all AND the left-handed so called compliments that occur. [how the heck many rs in occur?, lol]
My friends here have been immensely helpful and patient with me during this struggle. I want to say especially CalGal, Niecie and Diva have helped. It always amazes me to learn something about writing basics or intermediate-level things I never heard in school... not in 16 years of school, mind you. Sigh. Maybe I fell asleep during the grammar and or style lessons? LOL No, its the truth, I learned almost nothing about writing in grade school, high school or college, somehow.
So, here I am crying in my Pepsi... not crying, but yes, I suppose I'm whining. In part this is part and parcel of my clinical depression... I know that... and I'm working on that... I just needed to 'talk' to friends about it. I hope I never diss another writer. I hope anyone who feels I have done that will let me know it. Just last week I dropped out of a writers group on fb because they were going off on fanfic and fanfic writers... noses in the air and the whole elitist bunch of ... nonsense.
Writers need strong egos. yes, I know that. But the support of other writers is also imnsho CRUCIAL.
So, there you have it, my latest lament. Meanwhile I'm trying to write for this month's Camp Nano... they do two summer sessions... April and July. oh and I'm getting ready to get married! [End of July, here at home in OH]
Sorry if I brought your day down my friends, I really needed to get this off my chest. Do you ever feel this down and if so, how do you climb out again?
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