How was your writing week?

[King Mob]

Strangely, it was a good week for me. I was wondering desperately about my talentless and hiperambitious nature over my dish of spaghetti (my meal just about every day) when i suddenly, almost without thinking, pushed the dish away and started writing a story about a dish of spaghetti. It's small and playful and I'm quite proud of it.

Still, I need that strength to just sit down for hours and write and read and research. How do you guys do? My Power of Will sinks after 10 minutes, with luck.

[Jozanny]

I too, am getting too old to beat myself up, and if I want to do two long term projects on James and Lampedusa then I cannot get frustrated that they must be long term, and plot my points, as I want to do a good job, for myself, and not just because I could not take on a post-graduate mantle.

I just hope I live long enough and can find the discipline. I am debating, however, giving up my novels, and I did a lot of research on one before search engines came into being. Sigh.

I am an old woman people

[qimissung]

I cannot be everything at once, and most writing guides warn about that, but this is my weakness. I seem to believe I can be journalist/scholar/poet/fiction writer and occasional novelist, and exhaust myself juggling these outfits. I am somewhat angry at myself right now.

Well, maybe you can't do it all at once, but maybe you could cycle through them, maybe. Pick one, finish it, then turn to another project. Maybe it's like reading more than one book at once, although obviously more time-consuming. Good luck anyway.

[Jozanny]

gim:

My problem was I thought I had enough experience behind me as a freelancer to whip up an abstract by the deadline, but I started digging up the critical theorists to whom James is important a little late, and realized there was no way I could wing it--and I can do that on regular queries--and not sound confused, but it is okay.

The closer I get to Henry James in his late middle age, the more things I begin to see in his work, and the more I understand why he is an intellectual writer's writer. The man who introduced me to James really liked a paper I gave him on Osmond as the Anti-Christ and wanted me to turn it into an article--but that is too easy for me now.

I have to figure out my focus--and I am oddly closer on that with Lampedusa because Henry James is a critical industry unto himself--but I will get there.

Happy New Year to you too !

[ozhansean]

Very productive week. Learned a little bit about what I need to work on with my writing. On the other a little depressing since, well... I am so far away from where I want to be, as far as writing skills are concerned.

[Lumiere]

Made the mistake of reading the beginning of a short story I had written on some toilet paper, (I occasionally do this to psyche myself out: "it doesn't matter what you write, it's just toilet paper for Christ's sake!" It doesn't typically work). I thought "my God! This is trash!" I haven't written anything since. Perhaps I'll go through my notebook tonight and scrounge for bits of quality in hopes of a cheap ego boost. It's exhausting, this business of keeping your ego afloat....

[heroman]

i read harry potter novels, they were fascinating. i don't help stop reading them again and again.


he who starts reading them, need anothe twos or threes weeks to read them.

[wlz]

I'm still waiting for it to start!

[Maryd.]

I'm still waiting for it to start!

[applepie]

Almost entirely non-productive I imagine. I got a few notes down, an idea or two, but not a single solid paragraph to show for the week.

[Veva]

it's exhausting, this business of keeping your ego afloat....

:d ...

[blazeofglory]

I had a wonderful writing week and I wrote a variety of articles particularly on global economic issues and spirituality. In fact these are the articles I have been writing for local newspapers and magazines.

I am intoxicated with writing and I cannot sleep well without writing, yet the problem is not with writing but with what to write at times. While writing is a mechanic activity and I can engage in writing but to write up to the expectation of readers is a challenge facing me.

Against all these challenges however I will not refrain from writing,for it is my cup of tea and I cannot dispense with it at any rate.

Overall I must say I have a good writing week.

[ozhansean]

Not so well, have a story in mind, even halfway in. Now I feel like I want to tear it all out and start fresh, but for some reason I just cant figure out how I want to tackle it. Tried to leave it for later and start something new for now. But this story just wont leave my head, its stuck like an ear-worm....constipated.

[wlz]

I went to church yesterday.

[wlz]

My writing week is going well. I am working on a final draft of my third screenplay that I am currently working on which is called, 'Chaconne'. The treatment needs re-writing but otherwise all's going well.