on writing
nazarhayatkhan wrote...Frustrations, writer's block, rejection, depression & criticism is all a part of this difficult venture...
...some months earlier i had written her...yesterday out of the blue came her reply...the email addy had used was not her regular one...she seldom checked it...and then she gave me the news...she had finished a novel she was working on and was busy submitting it and three publishing houses were considering it...she sounded like an expectant father pacing the hospital corridors...
later...
...i suggested not to wait for the publishers decision...with the first novel out of the way she should immediately start working on the next novel or collection...that's when she mentioned a writer's block...
...i have read about it...have never experienced it personally...but wait, there is a caveat here...writing is an avocation not a profession for me...i am not paying any bills through my writing...
...i write when i feel like, what i feel like...no looming deadlines, no editors to please, no readers in mind save one...hence with this cavalier attitude no wonder i do not suffer the pangs of a writer's block...
...there is perhaps another reason too...have so many odd finished and unfinished poems in shoe boxes and discs...whenever am short on inspiration i pick one up and start working it over...and usually that leads to other directions
...yesterday in the star read matt beam's The book on rejection highlighting the travails of budding authors and writers…and immediately thought of her and shandy...and other aspiring authors :)
...the most important thing my friends is to have a clear head, a clear vision, and a clear game plan...keep that part time or day job, waitress do whatever to stay afloat...if you want to be an aspiring writer...
...if you do it just for the love of it...well...keep on trucking;)
...some months earlier i had written her...yesterday out of the blue came her reply...the email addy had used was not her regular one...she seldom checked it...and then she gave me the news...she had finished a novel she was working on and was busy submitting it and three publishing houses were considering it...she sounded like an expectant father pacing the hospital corridors...
later...
...i suggested not to wait for the publishers decision...with the first novel out of the way she should immediately start working on the next novel or collection...that's when she mentioned a writer's block...
...i have read about it...have never experienced it personally...but wait, there is a caveat here...writing is an avocation not a profession for me...i am not paying any bills through my writing...
...i write when i feel like, what i feel like...no looming deadlines, no editors to please, no readers in mind save one...hence with this cavalier attitude no wonder i do not suffer the pangs of a writer's block...
...there is perhaps another reason too...have so many odd finished and unfinished poems in shoe boxes and discs...whenever am short on inspiration i pick one up and start working it over...and usually that leads to other directions
...yesterday in the star read matt beam's The book on rejection highlighting the travails of budding authors and writers…and immediately thought of her and shandy...and other aspiring authors :)
...the most important thing my friends is to have a clear head, a clear vision, and a clear game plan...keep that part time or day job, waitress do whatever to stay afloat...if you want to be an aspiring writer...
...if you do it just for the love of it...well...keep on trucking;)
posted by temporal at 9/03/2005
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