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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!asuvax!asuacad!kvjlc
- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 08:30:57 MST
- From: <KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92244.083057KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: What now?
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- Okay, what now? So, I took a couple of months off from writing.
- What's the big deal. No harm done right? Wrong!
- I found out last night what was wrong. I'm impotent! Well at
- least when it comes to writing done a good line or two. I actually
- found an excuse not to write when I did sit down, and for the first time
- I couldn't think of anything interesting to write. No clever titles
- or quick dialogue. Just a couple of sentence fragments and a couple
- of comma splices for my efforts. I tried to tell myself that I would
- write later in the evening when all the boring stuff on television
- came on. But did I do that? You guessed it, I sat in front of the
- tube and went brain dead for a couple of hours.
- The sad part was or is that I really enjoy writing and in the last
- year and a half I have had no trouble coming up with short stories or
- a couple hundred pages towards my novel. I don't have writers block as
- much as I have the same sympthoms of going back to work after a long
- vacation. I have to many stories to tell and not enough time as it
- is, so this feeling of blah has to find somewhere or someone else to
- bother. Writing has (is) my way of inventing that requires less of
- my intellectual resources than when I was working on my inventions.
- But the ability to create has been taken away by inactivity and I
- hope that by just writing this posting I will bring some of it back
- soon.
- * * *
- Now to the question at hand. What can I do to get back into
- the swing of writing and more importantly finishing my novel? I
- suppose that everyone has a different technique or idea and I
- would appreciate reading what others have done.
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- Thanks,
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- Jon L. Campbell
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