Creative Writing Class Spurs DoH3 Updates · 10:44pm Aug 25th, 2016
I've been reading some interesting stuff. I thought I'd share, and then I thought I'd reaffirm that I've been writing outlines for the next few chapters when bored, and that hopefully I can take this blog's advice and finally start writing again.
I thought a lot of the same things about myself that you do, Elissa Bassist. That I was lazy and lame. That even though I had the story in me, I didn’t have it in me to see it to fruition, to actually get it out of my body and onto the page, to write, as you say, with “intelligence and heart and lengthiness.
The word comes from the Latin words humilis and humus. To be down low. To be of the earth. To be on the ground. That’s where I went when I wrote the last word of my first book.
I’d stopped being grandiose. I’d lowered myself to the notion that the absolute only thing that mattered was getting that extra beating heart out of my chest. Which meant I had to write my book. My very possibly mediocre book. My very possibly never-going-to-be-published book. My absolutely no-where-in-league-with-the-writers-I’d-admired-so-much-that-I-practically-memorized-their-sentences book. It was only then, when I humbly surrendered, that I was able to do the work I needed to do.
I didn’t know if people would think my book was good or bad or horrible or beautiful and I didn’t care
So I can relate, at this point I feel like the story is more hyped than No Man's Sky or Lost and no ending I write can do it justice, but I just have to write my possibly mediocre story to finally get it onto paper and finished with. Then I can move onto the next story, and the next.
And if you're a more serious writer you should check out the blog post "Write like a motherfucker" that I got the quotes from.
this is defiantly a different way to look at righting.
I am sure you will with time start righting agene and as the one post and I quote.
I’d stopped being grandiose. I’d lowered myself to the notion that the absolute only thing that mattered was getting that extra beating heart out of my chest. Which meant I had to write my book. My very possibly mediocre book. My very possibly never-going-to-be-published book. My absolutely no-where-in-league-with-the-writers-I’d-admired-so-much-that-I-practically-memorized-their-sentences book. It was only then, when I humbly surrendered, that I was able to do the work I needed to do.
I see so much wisdom in that and at the same time I my self can not right, I have the story I am just not able to put it to the wrighten word.
And a huge welcome back you have bean missed.
Good to have you back
Interesting enough i was told just today in English that "This is not a creative writing class. Everything we do in here follows a formula."
The sad moment when people worry what others will think while doing something they like/love.
I'd say you should write the story/ending the way you want it to pan out - it's your story after all. As long as you don't just write for the sake of writing, heh. I dunno. I'm bad with putting my thoughts into words.
But I'm definitely looking forward to more of the story, if/whenever you update it.