I figured that since my imagination is sooo out of control and I've got a dreamed up scenario for every possible life event, that writing it all down could get me at least published. But as I look at my blank screen I realize I'm good at writing epic moments. I actually have a bunch saved on my hard drive. It's the beginnings that scare me.
I seriously don't know how to start a story. I know how to write the BIG stuff. But what are all the things that led up to the big stuff? I dunno. Maybe I don't care. Maybe that's my problem. I want all big stuff and no back story.
Maybe I'm impatient. I want the book written...now. The stories of writers working on the great american novel for a decade. Screw that...I want the Robert James Waller book. Bridges of Madison County was written in like 2 weeks. Now that's what I'm talkin' about. Even though Stephen King suggests (in so many words) that Bridges was less than quality writing, it was a NYTimes bestseller, was it not?
I'm really only half serious. I want to write well. But I am impatient. I am a procrastinator. I spent hours writing and rewriting lists of contests I want to submit my writing to. But I didn't write a damn thing.
This is fun...
"The hardest thing about writing is always having to clean the refridgerator first."
Not sure about the above quote...I was told it was Hemmingway. I love it regardless.
The following is Hemmingway for sure.
"The first draft of anything is shit."
This I relate to!
1 comment:
Dude. Hemingway rules. Except for The Old Man and the Sea. I don't know why they make kids read that shit. Millions of high schoolers have been unjustifiably turned off to Hemingway because of that book.
And yeah, I hear you on the trials and tribulations of being a writer/wanting to be a writer. *sigh*
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