Some things never change
So last night I was yapping at the Hubster (he never actually responds) and for some reason I got to talking about all through high school and college I would come up with KICK ASS paper topics, do all the research - TONS of research, but when it actually came to writing the paper, I got bored.
Things haven’t changed a whole lot. I still do the same thing today. That’s why I don’t outline. I write for *me* not for an audience really. So if *I* already know everything, the fun isn’t there anymore.
Just like if I already know how “Traditional Native Medicines impacted the US Pharmacopia” (yes, that was a real paper), I’m not really interested in telling anyone else.
Now, that said, I am learning to like rewriting. I’m teaching myself how to like rewriting.
I look at it as kind of a giant puzzle. It’s all there. I just have to put it into some kind of cohesive structure that can then be admired by others.
Now all I have to do is get myself to be able to do both at one time (write one story while rewriting another) and I’ll be unstoppable!
I’ll try to set up Wordpress to post for me the next few days - I’m volunteering at BEA which is going to take up an obscene amount of time the next few days (I’ll have to be on the metro at 7am tomorrow - that’s barbaric!) so if I’m scarce, you know why.
May 18th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Have fun!
I read somewhere that this is the reason why so many people say you shouldn’t talk much about the story you’re writing. Because once you’ve talked about it a lot, the compulsion to get it out is gone and you no longer feel driven to write it. I definately think it has an effect!