AUTHOR SPEAK: For those of you who are not on my FB Author Page (and you should be ;-)), I have been writing a fiction novel and have been sharing my journey with interested parties. The frustration and unknown of the writers path is unimaginable...and lonely. Excerpts from SEVEN STEPS ON THE WRITERS PATH (not just for writers), reads, Writing is a path as full of darkness as it is of light, and so the way ahead is hard to see...As writers, we hardly ever know exactly where we are going. The only thing most of us know how to do is keep putting one foot after the other in the darkness and trust that eventually well get there. ...by fumbling, bleeding step, because thats what writers do when they dont know what else to do -- they just keep putting pen to paper, until they find their way out again. If that sounds melodramatic, its because the writing path is a bit over the top. Anyone who walks it finds that out through hard experience. This can be a hard place for the fainthearted or the emotionally cautious to spend any time. On the other hand, this path is also beautiful and is just as likely to bring you peace of mind as it is to dismay you. I would like to say that ones family is all too often a detriment to the writers path. My own family simply refuses to believe that I WORK! I HAVE A JOB! My family believes that because I dont punch a clock someplace, I have all the time in the world, and they constantly delegate jobs for me to do for them. Ive been assigned taking clothes to the cleaners, dropping off autos at the repair shop, picking up groceries, taking children to doctors appointments, meeting with handymen, mailing items, making phone calls, and running miscellaneous errands too numerous to recall. And I have to admit that in the last six months, when I ran and hid from my book, I welcomed and threw myself into solving my familys problems. But all that is done. I am a recovering family doormat and I am in the process of reinventing myself into the person I need to be to 1. Say NO, to my familys demands. 2. Refuse to give in to their tantrums. 3. Mind my own business. 4. Focus on working on and realizing my own dreams and goals. So, I am back on the writers path and I vow to stay on it until I come out the end with a published book in my hands. No matter how ugly, or scary my books gets at times, I promise not to run away and hide from it again. Ive got this!
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:28:32 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015