Never tempt providence
In answer to one of the stock questions on Goodreads I wrote yesterday morning that I didn't believe in writers block. I still don't but yesterdays writing session was a case of one step forward and two steps back for most of the day.
I was dissatisfied with much of what I wrote. It seemed dull and lifeless (nothing strange in that say those who have read my books). But I followed my own advice and stuck at it. By about 10 pm I was starting to motor. By midnight I'd rewritten the 2,000 words I'd sweated over during the day and could at last see signs of life in a lot of what I wrote.
The section isn't finished yet. But it's now good enough to leave it for a couple of weeks and let my subconscious play around with it. When I return to it I'll see what I've written with new eyes and be able to carry out a real edit and polish.
So I suppose my message to writers who are starting out is that even on bad days you can turn out good work provided you're willing to keep at it until you wrestle the work into submission.
Cheers,
Jim
I was dissatisfied with much of what I wrote. It seemed dull and lifeless (nothing strange in that say those who have read my books). But I followed my own advice and stuck at it. By about 10 pm I was starting to motor. By midnight I'd rewritten the 2,000 words I'd sweated over during the day and could at last see signs of life in a lot of what I wrote.
The section isn't finished yet. But it's now good enough to leave it for a couple of weeks and let my subconscious play around with it. When I return to it I'll see what I've written with new eyes and be able to carry out a real edit and polish.
So I suppose my message to writers who are starting out is that even on bad days you can turn out good work provided you're willing to keep at it until you wrestle the work into submission.
Cheers,
Jim
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