The long-term goal of this blog is to connect with future readers and to encourage other writers. Having a blog is a great way to let others know how your work is coming and to meet others who love to write. I read blogs written by people who hope to get published and they offer all kinds of tips and advice on writing.
I can’t do it. I know I should know better than to say can’t, but somehow I just can’t blog well, especially about writing tips. Whenever I try to blog, I mess it up. I suddenly contract essayitis and it comes out sounding stiff and formal like an essay an uppity professor assigned with so many rules that you feel like you’re duck taped tightly together and you can’t seem to move or breathe . Even as I’m typing this, I feel essay format trying to break through.
Although there are many problems with my writing, the biggest thing that keeps me from giving advice about writing is that I feel unqualified. In all honesty, I really don’t know what I am doing. I don’t have the secret code on how to be a successful writer or to create the perfect world. It’s all stuff that I’m trying to figure out, and I won’t really know if I’ve done anything well until I’m signed with a publisher or find my book on the New York Times Bestseller list. That leaves me with a major problem… what in the world am I supposed to blog about?
It finally came to me the other day. I may not be able to give the top ten ways to write a query or best advice on character building, but I can tell you all about being an imperfect writer and all of the things that come with it.
Here goes…
Imperfect Writing Tip # 1- if any of you are like me and your blogging feels like a porcupine trying to put on pantyhose and you aren’t tearing it up in the right kind of way, then be encouraged, trying to find the right things to say and the right way to say them can be tough. It hasn’t clicked for me yet, but maybe if we keep at it, it will get easier along the way. Of course I don’t know this for a fact, it could very well get worse or stay the same, but that wouldn’t be a very encouraging thing to say! ;)
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I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who struggles with imperfection. I've often found that I write and rewrite the same thing until it looses all magic and imagination. Thanks for the encouragement that I'm not alone!
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that a porcupine trying to put on pantyhose is the greatest analogy I have ever read. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteAnd no one has the perfect writing method. Writing is unique to who you are, and all we can do is share what works for us, and hope that someone out there can use part of that to help themselves. <3