Why DON'T you write?

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Why DON'T you write?

I can't join in the other thread simply because I currently don't write although i want to. I miss it. I have kept a diary on and off but it's in handwriting so isn't (for me) proper writing. Just spidery trails .
People have stopped thinking I write.
Here are a few reasons which spring to mind.
I am always on my son's computer since mine became geriatric and it's in a different room and doesn't feel creative, just cosy. In the other room time stood still as if someone was waiting for me.
I've been thinking a lot but not in words.
I've had a relationship which would be great to write about because I got angry but it would probably be boring to read about . It makes me look daft. I'll leave it in the cellar to mature.
I am fed up because when I do write it's only short snatches at the best and nothing you can call something, not say a novel or even a short story. So I suppose I've sometimes called my short snatches 'poems'. But even they are better than nothing.
Anyway I am planning a new computer in The New Year and it's going to be called Georgie Best.
In a way I miss the old typewriter idea as it was always sitting there and you didn't have to turn it on . And when you were typing it made a noise - the noise a writer makes.

I used to journal, as well, but it seems so self-indulgent in a hyperconscious kind of way. Mostly when I don't write it's simply because I have nothing to write about, or the subject is still in a jelly-like state and needs to firm up to put into words.
I don't write because I keep putting off getting started (or restarted). This is beause: a) I'm bone idle b) It's the cowardly thing, 'What if I read over what I've already written and it's complete crap...' I still try though, because when I do get down to it - I love it.
Yeah, you have to keep going with it. I have about half-a-dozen 'good ideas' percolating: these are mostly short stories-cum-novellas. I can never get past the second chapter, for some reason. I think it's laziness, or that I don't want to deal with the emotional drain of putting thoughts onto paper (or whatever). In the end, I keep plugging away. Poetry is easier; the good ones (which are then often cherry-picked, funnily) just come out in one go, with little editing. The others, which are usually weaker, I've sat and 'thought about', or tried something new with. I should know better by now, but my output goes way down otherwise...
I went to a creative writing course and the teacher said, just sit down at the (then) typewriter and just write what happened to you that day if you can't think of anything to write. There was a young woman there that day who'd never written anything, but came back the next week with the most beautiful story. But mind you the tutors insertion gave way to the monster that has become 'My Life Oy Vay' (Diary of a drunk) so there is a downside. I read recently that 'writers are liars - they make things up.'

 

Shoo, EVERYone makes things up. How else can you justify collagen lip implants?
I was told that you just have to sit down in front of the computer and just do it! I remember reading that Jeffrey Archer (is there no beginning to his talent) sat down from 6am until 8, 10 until 12, 2 until 4 and 6 until 8. Sorry that's not a lot of help but it did make him very rich.

 

That's just so his editor could sit down with it between, 8 and 10, 12 and 2, 4 and 6. Every night and weekends.
And it still wasn't any good.... (is that slanderous/libelous?)
I picked up one of his books (honestly) and thought I won't listen to all those people who think he's crap, I'll just give it a go. And yep I only managed to get to the bottom of the first page. Utter shite! How do you manage that in one page?

 

Because I can be uncommited and lazy.

 

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