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Another writing crisis
With the advent of the new year comes a new urge to start writing again. Although I've been slowly working on a number of projects for several months now, most notably the aborted attempt on Evil's True Form, I have made no real progress on anything. The last time I did anything really worth doing was back in October, when I put the finishing touches on the penultimate draft of Project Cold Witness. Granted, I can finish PCW once and for all as soon as my last crit comes in, so I have something of an excuse for waiting on that particular project, but it feels so ... hollow, just sitting around going nowhere.
For a writer, it is dangerous to pause for too long. You get slack. You start to lose the will to move forward. Worse, you start to wonder whether you in fact need to write any more. Eventually, you'll get up in the morning, sit down in front of your computer, poise your fingers at the keys ... and just think, "Why bother?" For someone who's always wanted to write, this is a nightmare.
The truth is that, no matter what your excuse, you simply can't afford to sit back and wait for things to happen. I can't afford to fool myself that, as soon as this last crit comes back, everything will start moving smoothly again. No doubt something else will crop up (such as these Real Life things that seem to be flooding in thick and fast these days), and it will be postponed by another few months. Before I know it I'll be at university in Norwich and my chance will be gone--perhaps for several years.
I have to get off my backside and start working on something new. And I have to do it now.
Tomorrow and Thursday are free, so I'm going to get up nice and early, and brush the dust off the project folders for Project Hooded Falcon, The Riven Path and Brynach of Gwynedd. Each story is completely different and offers a unique challenge: Falcon is modern technothriller, Riven is traditional fantasy, and Brynach is historical fantasy. Which should I work on? I don't know yet. Which do I want to work on? Only time will tell--but I do know that, right now, that's more important than future plans or publishing intentions.
Since a comment was successfully posted yesterday via Haloscan, I am leaving both systems in place--if Haloscan doesn't work, just use the Blogger comment link, and vice versa. Hopefully at least one will work at any given time.
Another writing crisis
With the advent of the new year comes a new urge to start writing again. Although I've been slowly working on a number of projects for several months now, most notably the aborted attempt on Evil's True Form, I have made no real progress on anything. The last time I did anything really worth doing was back in October, when I put the finishing touches on the penultimate draft of Project Cold Witness. Granted, I can finish PCW once and for all as soon as my last crit comes in, so I have something of an excuse for waiting on that particular project, but it feels so ... hollow, just sitting around going nowhere.
For a writer, it is dangerous to pause for too long. You get slack. You start to lose the will to move forward. Worse, you start to wonder whether you in fact need to write any more. Eventually, you'll get up in the morning, sit down in front of your computer, poise your fingers at the keys ... and just think, "Why bother?" For someone who's always wanted to write, this is a nightmare.
The truth is that, no matter what your excuse, you simply can't afford to sit back and wait for things to happen. I can't afford to fool myself that, as soon as this last crit comes back, everything will start moving smoothly again. No doubt something else will crop up (such as these Real Life things that seem to be flooding in thick and fast these days), and it will be postponed by another few months. Before I know it I'll be at university in Norwich and my chance will be gone--perhaps for several years.
I have to get off my backside and start working on something new. And I have to do it now.
Tomorrow and Thursday are free, so I'm going to get up nice and early, and brush the dust off the project folders for Project Hooded Falcon, The Riven Path and Brynach of Gwynedd. Each story is completely different and offers a unique challenge: Falcon is modern technothriller, Riven is traditional fantasy, and Brynach is historical fantasy. Which should I work on? I don't know yet. Which do I want to work on? Only time will tell--but I do know that, right now, that's more important than future plans or publishing intentions.
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