Comments | pennyfore: Super writer's block

pennyfore

Super writer's block

Jan 29, 2011 19:51

So that thing I talked about last time, about driving myself mad as a full-time writer. I got a case of it right now. Supposed to do a revision of a piece I'm writing for this blog, and I didn't like the way it came out on first draft and there were a couple of holes in my research, so I just have to do some quick Googling/Lexis-ing, plug a few ( Read more... )

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boredatwork1 January 30 2011, 01:06:47 UTC

Do it now.

batyachanna January 30 2011, 01:48:40 UTC

Tara, this I have this problem so much worse than you. The deadline is 11:00. You will do it by then. I will call you then to make sure it is done. You will be fine.

pennyfore January 30 2011, 07:09:02 UTC

Thanks, but you didn't call. ;)

I did finish something and sent it in, but I feel kind of stupid doing so this late. Better now than tomorrow, I guess....

pennyfore January 30 2011, 15:27:46 UTC

ANDDDD... I apparently attached it in a weird format she couldn't read, so I sent it again this morning, and I didn't realize for a half-hour that it was sent back to MYSELF. Ugh. This isn't my weekend at all.

batyachanna January 30 2011, 16:00:15 UTC

OMIGOD! I didn't call! I'm sorry! I fell asleep. I hope the threat worked anyway.

sheeniebeanie January 30 2011, 15:39:43 UTC

These things happen. You can't both care about the quality of the work and then churn stuff out on demand: it's one or the other, and in these situations you have to choose done over good.

My understanding is that full-time writers switch to other projects when things get difficult or they're having unproductive stretches. Or become alcoholics. I suggest the former.

ladyaray January 31 2011, 03:13:32 UTC

Pick up Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird. It made me feel better about myself as a writer and as a human being, and I make my students read it every semester, too.

sheeniebeanie January 31 2011, 12:50:37 UTC

Bird by Bird is a good one. Anne Lamott's a really quick read, too.