I know what I wanted to do with "John", but I'm stuck. I promised myself I'd finish some stories, but I only finished the one, and now with "John" since I'm stuck, I'm not doing ANYTHING.
Story of my life right there.
If I don't know what to do, or am even just unsure, I get stuck and abandon whatever it is. It lurks in the back of my mind and makes me feel guilty and useless and frustrated and sad. Ugg, sucks to be me, right? Unless! Unless I get desperate and see there's no hope, which can sometimes spur me on. After all, if there's no hope, I really can't mess up then, can I? Then if doesn't matter what I do because any action will work.
*sigh*
Desperation this time is that I want to be a writer, but I don't write, which makes me sad (and guilty and useless and frustrated.) I'm getting myself unstuck this time by changing what I'm doing because any writing is better than no writing. If I won't finish "John", I'll go back to my original idea: starting stories.
This round, I'm using a book of short stories I just finished as inspiration. Each day (or near as) I will look at the start of one of the stories from this anthology and use the general idea as inspiration--whatever it makes me think, I'll use it as a story start. I'm NOT copying the opening line; I'm simply using it for inspiration (I'll add it to the bottom of each as proof and credit.) The book I'm using is called Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (2006). Slipstream is...intriguing.
Let's see if this tricks me into being a writer again!
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