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1. Writing is Like Love
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Writing is Like Love
Writing is like love . . . .
A great idea catches your eye/sparks your mind. It's amazing. It's wonderful. It
could just work. You write the intro feverishly, investing time you would typically use
to do other things, with not even a pang of regret - because this could really be
something! This book could be The One! You know, the book that changes hearts,
minds, souls and brings you the fulfillment of every author's dream. You tell others
excitedly about it - or you keep it to yourself in hopes of springing it on others at just
the right time (Wabam!! - Check out who I found/what I did!).
Then somewhere in the middle, the doubts come in. You begin to think, I'm not sure
where I'm going with this storyline. I'm not sure this part is going to work. I
shouldn't have included that side-plot. I'm not sure I'm communicating what I mean
to here. And slowly you find you desire less and less to spend time writing that great
novel. Frustration moves in - maybe even writers block. Perhaps you begin to think,
Maybe this isn't The ONE. Maybe I should move on to another great idea. Maybe
I'll keep this novel on the side and start a new one and if that one doesn't work, I can
always come back to this one again. Maybe this is where you part ways with that
novel you were so excited about in the beginning.
Yet, every great author knows the truth (I'm not one yet, but I hope to be) . . . writing
is like love. If you invest time into it, learn, study it, discipline yourself to move
beyond the emotions and excitement to the heart of it -- the hard work of it --, seek
advice from others who have succeeded in it, read their works, see what they did, how
did they make it, read their struggles, see how they survived, pray over it, seek to
finish what you started even at the cost of putting aside other things which as time
goes on appear more important, develop a character of perseverance (I will not quit. I
will finish what I started), then you will find the fulfillment you seek - the fulfillment
of every author's dream -- a finished work.
But even then it is not finished. It requires continual editing. It will seem no matter
how many times you review it, have others review it, tiny mistakes continuously
appear, small errors innocently made which frustrate you and your readers. It
requires continual work and dedication. And you learn more and more as you go on.
If you do not quit.
Yet like love, even though it can be difficult, writing is worth it. And like love you
may find that even with hard work, investment, time-spent, dedication the idea does
not succeed. Yet without investment, time-spent, dedication, etc the idea was doomed
to fail from the beginning. Like love the risk is worth it -- and should the idea fail, a
new one may be waiting right around the corner if you do not give up.
~Mirage M. Stone
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