I'm still sitting around with the 'intention' of writing some great and epic work of art that will make the collective eyes of the world bleed. I seem to really be good at the procrastination thing and finding other things to do to put off what it is that I want to accomplish. I think that I'm going to have to take a tough love approach to this and force myself to sit down and write, no other way around it.
My life is in a position where I'm going to have to put myself into the work or perish, at least that is the way I feel about it. My job, though wonderful, isn't nearly enough to pay for what I need and what my son needs. Making $10/hour is less than respectable considering what it is that I actually do. It's where I am in my life though and if I want to make a change then I'm going to have the instigate the change myself, it's not just going to happen overnight.
I looked into other jobs this afternoon and quickly realized that there is scare little out there and what there is wouldn't put me in any better position than what I'm already in. At least where I am I'm comfortable and am able to work with the schedule that I get. I feel its now a matter of sleep when I can, work at night and do some writing in any and all free time that I get.
An idea that was brought up to me, totally by coincidence and without the other person even knowing that I had been thinking about ways to push myself into novel writing, was to write a chapter and post it online, on the blog. I have a link to Brandon Sanderson on the side, this is something that he did. Now even though his blog is listed on my side links its not actually a site I tend to visit very often. Andrew, one of the guys I work with, on the other hand tends to visit it on a regular basis and this is something that Brandon did with one of his novels. He posted the chapters as he wrote them. He posted the rough drafts, then he posted the revised copies of the chapters all the way through until the completed version was put up for download. I understand the fact that no money was made, in that way, by what he did but it did allow people to take a genuine look at the process as well as feel as if they were involved in the writing of the book that he was working on. I think it is a maginifecent idea and one that I think I will give a shot to in the near future. To line up with this there is a new project up in the writing group that I'm part of, to write the first chapter to a novel that you would someday like to write. I honestly think that this is a hefty push by the universe to motivate me into writing something longer than a short story.
Now I just need to come up with an idea that I feel is able to be pushed, pulled and expanded to reach novel proportions.
Peace,
ClX
My life is in a position where I'm going to have to put myself into the work or perish, at least that is the way I feel about it. My job, though wonderful, isn't nearly enough to pay for what I need and what my son needs. Making $10/hour is less than respectable considering what it is that I actually do. It's where I am in my life though and if I want to make a change then I'm going to have the instigate the change myself, it's not just going to happen overnight.
I looked into other jobs this afternoon and quickly realized that there is scare little out there and what there is wouldn't put me in any better position than what I'm already in. At least where I am I'm comfortable and am able to work with the schedule that I get. I feel its now a matter of sleep when I can, work at night and do some writing in any and all free time that I get.
An idea that was brought up to me, totally by coincidence and without the other person even knowing that I had been thinking about ways to push myself into novel writing, was to write a chapter and post it online, on the blog. I have a link to Brandon Sanderson on the side, this is something that he did. Now even though his blog is listed on my side links its not actually a site I tend to visit very often. Andrew, one of the guys I work with, on the other hand tends to visit it on a regular basis and this is something that Brandon did with one of his novels. He posted the chapters as he wrote them. He posted the rough drafts, then he posted the revised copies of the chapters all the way through until the completed version was put up for download. I understand the fact that no money was made, in that way, by what he did but it did allow people to take a genuine look at the process as well as feel as if they were involved in the writing of the book that he was working on. I think it is a maginifecent idea and one that I think I will give a shot to in the near future. To line up with this there is a new project up in the writing group that I'm part of, to write the first chapter to a novel that you would someday like to write. I honestly think that this is a hefty push by the universe to motivate me into writing something longer than a short story.
Now I just need to come up with an idea that I feel is able to be pushed, pulled and expanded to reach novel proportions.
Peace,
ClX
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