Deep down I knew that anyone I could think up to ask for advice on my writing would tell me that very thing. I just wasn't ready to believe it yet. I'm not sure I'm ready to believe it now, but I am ready to write and the rest of it is going to work out.
I've spent so much of my writing life so far asking everyone else what they think of my story ideas, seeking approval or affirmation that what I'm doing makes sense or is something that someone besides me likes. I think a lot of writers are that way, we want people to like what we do after all. People won't buy the books if they don't. But, if we are constantly trying to do what everyone else wants, somewhere along the way we lose our original spark of an idea that made the story ours.
That's my bit of depth for today. :)
I've spent so much of my writing life so far asking everyone else what they think of my story ideas, seeking approval or affirmation that what I'm doing makes sense or is something that someone besides me likes. I think a lot of writers are that way, we want people to like what we do after all. People won't buy the books if they don't. But, if we are constantly trying to do what everyone else wants, somewhere along the way we lose our original spark of an idea that made the story ours.
That's my bit of depth for today. :)
I have today to finish my synopsis and a lot of pages to catch up on with my writing. Thankfully I have a lot of ideas in my head for scenes and a lot of notes jotted down in notebooks. If I can just keep focused now, it will be all about finding the time to write and then the editing of the jumbled words after.
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| Daytime burn |
At least I have finally given myself permission to write pages of crap. If you could see the way some of my writing starts out you would probably be shocked. It's especially funny when I don't even know the characters names and I write scenes that say - The heroine walks over there. The hero does this. The bad guy does that. I have a lot of that written that I'll have to go back and fill in with prettier sounding stuff.
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| That night |
My drive yesterday did give me an idea for a future story. People were burning fields all over yesterday and the sky was filled with smoke. With writing suspense stories right now, my first thought was... what if they found a dead body after all the burning was done...?
On the way home at night it was beautiful the way the night sky was lit up in reds and pinks. You could see the sky glowing for miles and miles. I took a few pictures but my photography skills don't really show how pretty it was.
So today it's back to work. I am going to get this synopsis done... a few run throughs this morning just to get all the facts in there and then polish it up this afternoon and make it sparkly.
What is everyone else up to today? Whatever it is - have an awesome day out there!
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