Every famous Writer hears this. But nobody asked me.
stop. Think. You are asking for help writing because you think you need help?
NO, that just a lie you are telling yourself.
The reason you are lying is because it's boring. You don't want to work on something that is boring do you?
That's okay sometimes you lose your sense of place and have to actually work on something. So you've run out of "create" and now you are working on something that is predictable. There is no fun in work. Unless it's something you enjoy.
Where is the border between something that you enjoy and work?
It's where you are doing something you don't want to do. For example, I have breifly thought about reviewing manga and anime. I love reading manga. Sometimes I'll read some books over and over again. And then I'll go back to my old stash of books and read those over again to get a new view or view it for the first time, again. But if I was getting paid to read manga then I would be forced to read genres of manga that doesn't really interest me. I would have to cut down my favorite book into perspective pieces to write about them. And that would ruin my general sense of enjoying the story and the art, wouldn't it? Beside I can't write for crap.
The difference between something you love to do and work is having to work for others to get money. I don't really say that working soemone is bad but if you are working for someone who doesn't really know you or has a mind set that is different then yours then there will be complications.You'll be working against what you enjoy under the title that you'd think you would want. Then. Then it's not about what you are doing, it's how you are doing it. You don't have as much freedom as you did before. You have to do things for other people to obtain the same amount of money even thought it something they created and it goes against your creativity.
I'm getting bored. So.
Writer's block. Creative hole. Laziness. Lost of passion.
These are all things that show that you are not giving yourself enough room to work with. You have limited yourself. Thru you job or your other job, the friends that say one thing, the critics that say another, the books you read that suggest doing it this way, the people in the field that are telling you to do it that way, and past successes that point to something else are limiting you. Provided that what they say may be true but originality has alwayed shined brighter.
I'm not saying that fighting the current is good. But I'm not saying the going with the current will be good also. Just do your own thing. *Relax and imagine*.
There. You get stuck. Relax and imagine. You are adjusted to your own imagination right?
edited:(More in Push vs Pull)
NO, that just a lie you are telling yourself.
The reason you are lying is because it's boring. You don't want to work on something that is boring do you?
That's okay sometimes you lose your sense of place and have to actually work on something. So you've run out of "create" and now you are working on something that is predictable. There is no fun in work. Unless it's something you enjoy.
Where is the border between something that you enjoy and work?
It's where you are doing something you don't want to do. For example, I have breifly thought about reviewing manga and anime. I love reading manga. Sometimes I'll read some books over and over again. And then I'll go back to my old stash of books and read those over again to get a new view or view it for the first time, again. But if I was getting paid to read manga then I would be forced to read genres of manga that doesn't really interest me. I would have to cut down my favorite book into perspective pieces to write about them. And that would ruin my general sense of enjoying the story and the art, wouldn't it? Beside I can't write for crap.
The difference between something you love to do and work is having to work for others to get money. I don't really say that working soemone is bad but if you are working for someone who doesn't really know you or has a mind set that is different then yours then there will be complications.You'll be working against what you enjoy under the title that you'd think you would want. Then. Then it's not about what you are doing, it's how you are doing it. You don't have as much freedom as you did before. You have to do things for other people to obtain the same amount of money even thought it something they created and it goes against your creativity.
I'm getting bored. So.
Writer's block. Creative hole. Laziness. Lost of passion.
These are all things that show that you are not giving yourself enough room to work with. You have limited yourself. Thru you job or your other job, the friends that say one thing, the critics that say another, the books you read that suggest doing it this way, the people in the field that are telling you to do it that way, and past successes that point to something else are limiting you. Provided that what they say may be true but originality has alwayed shined brighter.
I'm not saying that fighting the current is good. But I'm not saying the going with the current will be good also. Just do your own thing. *Relax and imagine*.
There. You get stuck. Relax and imagine. You are adjusted to your own imagination right?
edited:(More in Push vs Pull)