When it comes to writing I have figured out all about
priorities. Now I don’t mean life priorities. Family should always have a
place, and having the ability to pay your bills, and be healthy. But rather I
have finally figured out my priorities in what to write.
Some people have writers block. I have the opposite problem.
I have a list of over one hundred different novels, short stories, plays,
screenplay, etc. So while some struggle with having nothing to write, I struggle
with wanting to write every damn thing at the same time. And for a long time I
really did try.
That was foolish. That was incredibly foolish. I would get overwhelmed
and then I would write nothing. Or I would end up putting my writing off for a
day or two and try to write a massive word count in a single day which would
result in becoming frustrated when something came up and I couldn’t even get
half of my goal reached.
This is an issue. Well this was an issue. It took soul
searching and reading one or two blogs by writers I respect for me to finally
get my shit together.
I have even adopted slow blogging, a concept Anne R. Allen
promotes. After all what kind of writing do I wish to do? The blog should be in
service to my writing, not the other way around. That is unless my goal is to
become a blogger. And in all honesty it is not.
Now I can focus on one item, get that done and then focus on
the next. So this month I am focusing on a novel. A fantasy novel that will
take place in a world I have been working on for longer than I care to admit.
Next month it will be on something else, plus a thirty day
break from the fantasy novel so I can go back and edit it anew.
I will also look for
a way to make this blog a bit more focused. A bit more relevant to what I am
writing. It took me a long time to get to this point in my attempt at a profession,
a point where I have enough insight to see my bad habits and how they hurt me.
Applying this to my blog should be easy enough. Or not.
Only time will tell.
