Words are hard. · 9:34am Jan 30th, 2016
Words are hard. In fact, I'm writing this blog full of words, which are also hard, because they are easier than the words I want to write.
Tell me if this sounds familiar to anyone: you start a long writing project with good intentions, and infinite patience, but the pace is slow. After some time, your will fades, and something else catches your attention. You never intend fully to leave the project, but priorities shift. After some time, it is remembered, and you return with the best of intentions, but the thousands of words you have already written seem both alien and daunting. It feels like you begin scaling some monstrous mountain, then when you take a break and rest, you find that in the night, you have fallen to a lower elevation. The task stretches on ahead ponderously, and you fully intend to travel the distance, but to fully master the amount you have already achieved daunts.
I don't know what else to say. I know this is just one writer's self-pity party in a plentiful pile of peers, but yeah. I wanted to get that off of my chest. Heh, actually it's probably generous to call me a writer at all, eh? Ah well. Words are hard.
Cheers, all.
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All of us.
Oh, believe me, there are a number of old projects I look back on with shame, not because I don't like them, but because I doubt I'll ever finish them. It's been so long, you forget the mindset you had when you wrote it, all of the little details of the world that you never wrote down because you swore you'd include them in a later chapter at some point and you knew the lore, so why bother?
I may be projecting a little.
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Luckily, I've already learned to write every little thing down. I write slowly. Still, it's intimidating. I feel I can't give up on them, though, because I would be giving up on myself. I also have no idea on the frame of time necessary. It's like it represents some forlorn hope. At the very least, I can honestly say I aim to finish it eventually. I'm just hoping it's a Starcraft II eventually and not a Half-Life 3 eventually.
I know your pain. All too well.
I know what you mean...
I have one project in mind that's a series of (by now) 14 stories, some of them ridiculously long. And I'm scared because I know I'll hardly manage to finish the first one.
So, yeah... if it helps, rest assured that there's always someone even worse than you.
Have you tried poetry, CMRD? Because your metaphors are on point.
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Haven't done poetry since high school. It's probably for the best, haha. I don't think the world misses my oft-angsty attempts at combining wit and brevity. That was when I still cared, and had dreams and aspirations. Now I just have horsewords of dubious merit, and I relegate most of my angst in blog posts! I think it's probably for the best.