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To write or not to write...
Jan. 5th, 2008 01:34 pm2007 could best be know as my "Year of No Writing". I didn't write anything last year. As in.... zip. Nada. Nothing. I'd be hard pressed to come up with more than 1000 words of fic -- be it original or fanfic. As of late, I write so seldom on LJ that I’m not sure that I can even consider myself as writing anything, in any form.
I've been giving serious thought, these past several months, to giving up on writing. As in, giving up on the idea that I should write and just spend my creative time doing something else.
And it's not really a question of enjoyment, really. Writing has never been "easy" for me. I fight over the words I use, I obsess over nuances of character and, as one writing professor told me, I plot like a 19th century novelist. Still, I enjoy doing it; the same way I enjoy any hard work that produces a solid result.
( In many ways, my problem is a philosophical one. )
I've been giving serious thought, these past several months, to giving up on writing. As in, giving up on the idea that I should write and just spend my creative time doing something else.
And it's not really a question of enjoyment, really. Writing has never been "easy" for me. I fight over the words I use, I obsess over nuances of character and, as one writing professor told me, I plot like a 19th century novelist. Still, I enjoy doing it; the same way I enjoy any hard work that produces a solid result.
( In many ways, my problem is a philosophical one. )
