Taking a writing course might actually help. draft, and then you can show people what you have.Ģ. This way you dont have anyone with any expectations about it, and it can be as terrible as you like - you'll fix a lot of the problems in your second, third, etc. Try not to show anyone your first draft until it's finished. But sometimes i come back a couple months later and want to "check up" on the characters, so i go back to writing it, just to see how things turn out.ġ. When i realize that's impossible, i put down what i'm writing, and a lot of times i dont finish it. I try to get everything right in the first draft. How do you overcome your own self criticism, if there is any? Wow after reading that again I realized I left out the point.Ģ. So why can't I just stop making excuses and just write?!?!?! Seriously? Who does that? Why am I finding it so hard just to write garbage just to get the thoughts out and go back and edit when I am done? I am dragging this whole thing out. I was in the shower earlier thinking, "Maybe I should enroll in a writing class and hold off on the book for now". Then I wind up on Google looking up all sorts of "Tips for writers" and shit, like making things way more complicated than they have to be. I tried to just keep writing and keep telling myself, "you can go back and fix it when you are done with the draft". I am the kind of person that cannot move forward until I fix all mistakes. But when I look at it, it's loaded with mistakes and it's only the first draft- where there are GOING to be mistakes. Everyone else loves it, they think it's awesome and so far I have had not one complaint. I like to think of myself as being "born to write" so if I fail- then I will have to re-think my purpose, or something to that effect. I have always wanted to do it, but was always scared that I wouldn't do it right.
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