#WednesdayWriter ~ It’s Time to Write
There’s nothing like taking a break from writing to make you want to write. Ever since I made the decision to stop publishing, I’ve had a creative spark that’s hit me like a bolt of lightning. I guess the pressure on me to perform stymied my creativity–to a degree.
It’s always been easy for me to conjure up a story; hearing a new song or watching a movie usually sparks something new. For example, I watched a Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural youtube video weeks ago and now have a fantastic idea for a new horror television script that weaves in historical facts. The details literally came to me while I was at work…working.
With the release of pressure came a burst of energy and, quite honestly, these stories aren’t going to write themselves. A true writer can only stay away from the typewriter laptop for so long. We mostly live in a fantasy world begging to birthed from the captivity of our imaginations and experienced by the world (at least, that what I think my stories want).
Now this isn’t to blame readers. And there are authors who can turn out a book a month and publish with no problem (that’s why they’re making the money and I’m not). But clearly I was stressing myself out–knowingly–with the mistaken belief that writing and publishing was what I had to do everyday, even if the words weren’t coming and the story ideas had yet to be realized.
Wrong.
If I want to spend my evenings playing my video game, I can and I will. Won’t make any money that way, but you get my point.
Except, a writer writes. Period.
I’ve taken a break, gotten my mojo back, and now I’m furiously hitting the keys. I met my word count goal for the day, and I’m one day closer to finishing this book. Good, because I have too many other stories waiting to be written. Probably shouldn’t take too many breaks in the future or I’ll be frustrated that I’m not writing enough, and I might get bored with my own ideas, or I’ll think of another brilliant story and will want to write that one first keeping the others in a state of suspended fantasy…
We writers are straight cray-cray.
#WednesdayWriter The musings of an indie author struggling to sell books by not doing a single thing right.
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