Tough Times, Moving Forward
November 26th 2006 03:03
It seems to me that I write here more about the difficulty in writing than other writers in their ‘writer’s life’ stuff. Maybe because I don’t have a big income. Maybe because I don’t have a family that believe in what I’m trying to do. Maybe because an old back injury is making it hard to sit still. Maybe because I figured out I have a mild depression hanging over me: when there’s no one around my default states are sad or angry.
But the thing is that there’s an overriding compulsion, to create a story that I can share with people. The easy thing would be to give up. The hard thing is to keep going. But there’s no question which I will do.
So that’s today’s advice: if it’s not driving you, if you don’t have that monkey on your back… don’t do it. Really. It’s just stuff, you can express yourself other ways. But if you must tell stories, must communicate them to a wider audience, give it your best shot.
When no one else believes in you, I’ll be here. And so will the other people who post here. Don’t just say, “I want to be a writer”. Do it. Prove to the world, and more importantly yourself, that it is what you want to do, now and forever.
In conclusion, I offer the final line from my latest post over at the Scriptwriting Blog: Now – get to it!
But the thing is that there’s an overriding compulsion, to create a story that I can share with people. The easy thing would be to give up. The hard thing is to keep going. But there’s no question which I will do.
So that’s today’s advice: if it’s not driving you, if you don’t have that monkey on your back… don’t do it. Really. It’s just stuff, you can express yourself other ways. But if you must tell stories, must communicate them to a wider audience, give it your best shot.
When no one else believes in you, I’ll be here. And so will the other people who post here. Don’t just say, “I want to be a writer”. Do it. Prove to the world, and more importantly yourself, that it is what you want to do, now and forever.
In conclusion, I offer the final line from my latest post over at the Scriptwriting Blog: Now – get to it!
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Comment by Hope
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Comment by Australis
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thanks for posting.
Yeah, I used to be like that, but it seems... <sigh> the more, uh, mature you get, the harder it is to exclude distractions and just get on with it. Well, that's how it seems to me. In my 20s, when terrible things happened to me, it spurred a burst of creativity, epsecially in songwritng and poetry. But now, it makes delaying writing (see most recent Scriptwriting Blog) easier as I sit here and fume at the world and all its injustices, or my own stupidity. Hey ho, all we can do is live and learn and move on.