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Just Write
I like the Nike tag line - JUST DO IT
posted by
Color_Your_Life
on February 12, 2008 at 6:32 PM
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Writers Fears
Actually I can't identify there. My biggest fear is that I will NEVER get all the stories out. I've never had a day of writers block in my life, that's not to say that I haven't written poorly or rushed into a project before it was researched and ready.
I just can't sit in a coffee house with fifteen people in the room and not walk out with a story. I listen to people all the time, from one way cell phone conversations in airport ticket lines, to the chatter that goes on at other tables in a restaraunt, or the conversations that go on in airplanes. Being a 911 operator gives you an interesting insight into the motivations of people under stress and the odd people that turn into hero's by their actions and not their thoughts.
If you write you are a writer. Put that self doubt in the trash can where it belongs and step outside yourself and start observing the world with a story teller's eye. The rest will just come as it may.
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posted by
white-cossack
on February 11, 2008 at 11:04 PM
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I think....
...worry is a stumbling block! Flip it over and use it as a stepping stone!
Naked Pictures Of Voices In My Head
posted by
CRShelley
on February 11, 2008 at 9:52 PM
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Actually it's a valid fear
Sometimes even the best writers can write something bad.
posted by
tigerprincess
on February 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM
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Toni Morrison said the bluest times for her was when she didn't have a book to fret over. sam
posted by
sam444
on February 11, 2008 at 7:10 AM
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