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12 years ago
*wags* Heya! *looks down* WORDS!! *pounces*
To many writers out there I know what it's like to start working on a story only to find yourself not finishing it.
I'm an imaginative fellow, and as such, I think up stories all the time. I run them through my head in daydreams, and often sit in my apartment for hours in silence just exploring those worlds. However, whenever I start to write them down, even just a quick synopsis of what kind of story I want to tell, I find myself neglecting it later. At first I thought it was just one or two of these stories, but then I started to realize that I have close to 10 different titled documents, all with a different setting and basic plot. The thing is, while that seems like a good thing for a writer to have (meaning multiple inspirations to work on), it's probably the most detrimental thing. They all run together now and I can't even remember why I started writing a few of them in the first place.
The reason I am even writing this now is because I just had the inspiration to start something new, but I'm literally scared to because I don't want to neglect and forget this story like I have with others. The main reason being is due to that this story actually stems from a lot of the emotions and ideals that I hold very dear to me, as well as some of the issues I wanted to face with a few of the stories that I neglected but haven't completely forgotten.
I hate this idea that if I start to put it on paper I'll forget about it, because I want to share it. I want to put it down in ink so that I can see it outside of my head.
Furthermore, I honestly don't think I'm a great writer. It has less to do with my inability to write or my lack of vocabulary, but more to do with my overly critical view of my own writing. I don't want it to seem shallow, but I don't want it to also seem overly deep. A lot of times I read things I find that they go into a poetic nature that doesn't really fit with the story, or that they overly describe things but then don't keep any consistency with the writing. I don't want to be guilty of that. Therefore, I often critique my sentences before I even finish them. I'll spend close to 4 hours trying to write the perfect paragraph before going back and changing it later.
One of my more pathetic and self-loathing posts. I might not ever start this story of mine, but I hope that I can overcome my own limitations and actually produce something worthwhile from it.
Thanks for listening if you did.
See ya
I'm an imaginative fellow, and as such, I think up stories all the time. I run them through my head in daydreams, and often sit in my apartment for hours in silence just exploring those worlds. However, whenever I start to write them down, even just a quick synopsis of what kind of story I want to tell, I find myself neglecting it later. At first I thought it was just one or two of these stories, but then I started to realize that I have close to 10 different titled documents, all with a different setting and basic plot. The thing is, while that seems like a good thing for a writer to have (meaning multiple inspirations to work on), it's probably the most detrimental thing. They all run together now and I can't even remember why I started writing a few of them in the first place.
The reason I am even writing this now is because I just had the inspiration to start something new, but I'm literally scared to because I don't want to neglect and forget this story like I have with others. The main reason being is due to that this story actually stems from a lot of the emotions and ideals that I hold very dear to me, as well as some of the issues I wanted to face with a few of the stories that I neglected but haven't completely forgotten.
I hate this idea that if I start to put it on paper I'll forget about it, because I want to share it. I want to put it down in ink so that I can see it outside of my head.
Furthermore, I honestly don't think I'm a great writer. It has less to do with my inability to write or my lack of vocabulary, but more to do with my overly critical view of my own writing. I don't want it to seem shallow, but I don't want it to also seem overly deep. A lot of times I read things I find that they go into a poetic nature that doesn't really fit with the story, or that they overly describe things but then don't keep any consistency with the writing. I don't want to be guilty of that. Therefore, I often critique my sentences before I even finish them. I'll spend close to 4 hours trying to write the perfect paragraph before going back and changing it later.
One of my more pathetic and self-loathing posts. I might not ever start this story of mine, but I hope that I can overcome my own limitations and actually produce something worthwhile from it.
Thanks for listening if you did.
See ya
