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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 18th, 2010 at 6:28 pm and is filed under On Writing (archive).
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I’ve been having a bit of a struggle recently.

With everything I’ve written so far, even the stuff I think is half reasonable, I always get the feeling that it’s a bit flat.  There’s always that voice at the back of my head telling me that it could have been richer in the detail and, well, just better. And I just don’t know how.  The added concern is that my writing is never going to be more than mediocre.

I’m really scunnered with it to be honest and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think of just giving the whole game up.

But I don’t really want to do that.  Or do I?

What I am going to do is take a break.  I’ve tidied away all my notes, all my yWriter files and I’ve put them into on-line storage somewhere.  I’m about to clear them off my pc and take a long time away.  That might be for a week or two, maybe a month.  Maybe longer.  Who knows?

With some time with writing out of sight and mind I might be inspired to pick it up with a greater passion.  Then again, I might not.

I’ll have to see how that goes.

- Alistair

All a bit 2D

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  • beshemoth

    But mediocre SELLS, dude! Check out Twilight. Admittedly I haven't done so myself, but people love it and the critical acclaim said it was Awful. And she is rich, I tells ya!
    Anyway, that's what I tell myself when I read my stuff back and realise how much I suck. :D
    Sad to hear you're taking a break but everyone needs to spend some time doing Something Entirely Different, I think. Once you read it over with a bit of distance, you'll probably find you were doing a lot better than you thought and be keen to get back into it :) Besides, if you don't get space and then go back, it's not really a second draft, just the first one going on forever?
    I have no idea if any of this is useful so I'll shut up now. Happy Sunday.

  • beshemoth

    Oh, and becoming disillusioned with what you're doing is an entirely natural part of the writing cycle, I believe. Otherwise you are Ayn Rand.
    Right, really shutting up this time!

  • Edgy

    “People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.” – Anna Quindlen

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