December 2, 2011

This week in the “Destressing the Writing Life” workshop, we talked about information overload–how much valuable information is available on the Internet–and the pressure we feel because there’s no time to read and absorb it all.

To that end, I hope my recommendations once a week help you sift through the wonderful (often free) material out there. To that end, here’s my Friday offering.

 

Take all weekend to read them, if you like. Do NOT stress over getting them all read right now!

• How do you know if you’re “called to write”?
• Why does this writer choose NOT to self-publish?
• Here are five steps to developing more discipline!
• Can you soften the uncertainty that comes with writing?
• Here’s a fabulous checklist for critiquing your own work or someone else’s.

 

 

 

3 Comments »

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   “How do you know if you’re called to write?” and “softening the uncertainty that comes with writing” are nearly tailor-made for me right now… but only NEARLY. I find the question I’ve really been asking myself lately, the doubt that has nagged me the most, is MAYBE I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING WORTH WRITING. I don’t have anything I really feel must be told, I don’t have anything to say that anyone else would care to read, nobody wants to hear my stories, the voices in my head don’t talk to me anymore, blah blah blah. I do feel that this is Wrong, somehow, because I’ve felt Called to write since I was very young, and basically writing IS the way I make sense of the world, the way I communicate. I’m just afraid I don’t have anything to say anymore. Any good thoughts on this topic?

   Comment by rockinlibrarian — December 2, 2011 @ 2:55 pm

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   Rockinlibrarian, I will give your question/comment some thought. I know that at various points in my career (usually when going through a dry period of no sales for several years despite trying just as hard), I went through the same things. Also, sometimes because of physical reasons, I lost my “drive” or “excitement” or the feeling that “this story must be told!” It’s never been something I could conjure up either. Usually I had to get regular life in order first (fix health problems, fix marriage problems, help child over some hurdle) before I got enough rest and solitude back to get the excitement back. But let me think on this one, and I’ll see what comes up for me.

   Comment by Kristi Holl — December 5, 2011 @ 11:32 am

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   I think you’re right– there are definitely things I need to work on in regular life right now. But problems in real life make me miss at least the IDEA of writing even more!

   Comment by rockinlibrarian — December 6, 2011 @ 9:12 am

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