wolf_dude64 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wolf_dude64) wrote,@ 2008-03-02 22:35:00 |
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A Good Day
Today was a busy day, but thankfully productive. Between church and my son's soccer game we stayed on the run. My wife and I are youth leaders at our church and we spent the evening with our youth group helping a new church member move into their house. This left an hour here and an hour there for writing, but it worked out pretty well. I wrote about 1500 words on Heart of Odin and finally got past my writing rut.
I have been in a rut for a couple of days. It was not that I was too busy to write, it just didn't seem to matter. I think everyone who writes goes through days like that. Where you feel like you are spinning your wheels and not accomplishing anything. Every time I sat down at the computer I just stared and the screen and then got up and walked away. I rarely watch TV, and I found myself lying on the couch and watching programs that I had seen a dozen times. I admit that I let the writing demons take over for a couple of days--doubt, envy, and basic self pity. It was before church this morning, as I sat down at my computer waiting for my wife to finish getting ready, that I pinpointed the source. I realized the rewrite comments I received a few days ago on my story Max had dragged me down that road. Don't get me wrong, a rewrite request is good, but one of the reader's comments really got under my skin. Typically such things don't bother me much, but I think because the snarky comment was attached to a rewrite request it hit a nerve. I think it really bothered me because the comment was directed at the writer (me) and not the story. Sometimes you just have to figure out the source of your mood to overcome it.
Okay, I feel even better now that I got that out.
Happy writing!
Today was a busy day, but thankfully productive. Between church and my son's soccer game we stayed on the run. My wife and I are youth leaders at our church and we spent the evening with our youth group helping a new church member move into their house. This left an hour here and an hour there for writing, but it worked out pretty well. I wrote about 1500 words on Heart of Odin and finally got past my writing rut.
I have been in a rut for a couple of days. It was not that I was too busy to write, it just didn't seem to matter. I think everyone who writes goes through days like that. Where you feel like you are spinning your wheels and not accomplishing anything. Every time I sat down at the computer I just stared and the screen and then got up and walked away. I rarely watch TV, and I found myself lying on the couch and watching programs that I had seen a dozen times. I admit that I let the writing demons take over for a couple of days--doubt, envy, and basic self pity. It was before church this morning, as I sat down at my computer waiting for my wife to finish getting ready, that I pinpointed the source. I realized the rewrite comments I received a few days ago on my story Max had dragged me down that road. Don't get me wrong, a rewrite request is good, but one of the reader's comments really got under my skin. Typically such things don't bother me much, but I think because the snarky comment was attached to a rewrite request it hit a nerve. I think it really bothered me because the comment was directed at the writer (me) and not the story. Sometimes you just have to figure out the source of your mood to overcome it.
Okay, I feel even better now that I got that out.
Happy writing!
