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I'm planning to finish Halo this month.
I was planning to use the longer story (Copper Moon) by December 2007.
Do any of you think I can meet my plans?
Of course you'd reassure me and give me some encouragement, which I'd duly accept. My heart would rise, so I would geniuely be happy with your warm comments.
But -
I think some themes/topics have their due time to be written.
Some of you, knowing of my other blog, might have read the poem about a drawing in the sand - it is quite a symbolic one, but everyone with a heart and attention was able to grab the meaning -so do the comments reveal.
It was about a haunting and how I deal(t) with it.
I simply had visions in my head, I felt the urge to write the poem and so, not really caring about the format and words entering my mind, I did.
I wrote it and it feels quite allright.
Now the motivation has gone, I've dealt with a certain problem and I seem to have solved it.
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Halo is within me, to be written. I know it is about something I deal with in my everyday life as well. I happen to believe that writing it will help me solving that problem, or help me throw some understanding on it.
I doubt I will ever write a story about a person like Hail, when I'm ready with Halo.
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I do not plan writing stories. They are within and if they are not within anymore, I see no use of writing them any longer.
How about you?
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I am strict with plans. if I say it will have been done by 15th July then it will be ready. good luck with your job.
Although I don't write I do paint, & your ending comments seem to go along with that. I've abandoned paintings because the interest waned. At present I'm even considering giving up painting altogether (again.) Seems like a largely pointless exercise (beyond ego stroking that I don't need,) but I digress...
Emperor Ropi,
I see your points. You know I'm a translator. If I have to translate a text by 15 July I will surely send it before that date.
But this is not compulsory writing, not a job.
It stems from some inner stress. Writing releases the stress and/or examines the causes of such stress and/or provides solutions.
Once the stress is gone by some other method, there's no point writing the very same thing.
Thanks, anyway.
Lana,
thanks for following the footsteps of your DH here to my writing blog.
I see what you mean with painting.
I suggest you not to give up anyway, or drop it for an uncertain time, to know that you can pick it up anytime later on.
If the interest isn't there, the spark of excitement, then I don't write the idea either.
It would lack the necessary passion.
I can't say I am going to write because it is not something I can do on demand.
For me, a story comes with a feeling that almost invades me and demands to be written. The story writes itself as and when it is ready to do so.
I wish you well with your writing :)
Well, I'm a kind of stubborn guy. I do abandon things when it isn't working, but if it is working and I'm not so interested I often will still make myself finish it. Stories anyway, not novels.
Bernita,
I think what passion means for you, is a sort of a therapeutic effect for me. Once it is not needed - why write?
Considering this topic again, there still might be times when I would write it: if it is funny or really exciting as a writing experiment. But... I doubt these occassions would happen very often.
Myladysa,
I totally feel your words.
Charles,
that's some discipline, wow!
I'm still finding my way, but I find there are usually two reasons I lose interest in a story. The first is that although something excited me enough to begin writing, I soon find that the idea truly isn't as interesting to me as it first was. The second it that I'm having a difficult time getting beyond a question or problem and in that case, I've recently learned to try to continue writing through the problem. Often that means that I ramble for a few thousand words until I find my way (I don't write short stories or poetry, so a few thousand words isn't much in context of a novel). Sometimes I do find the way and usually, the extraneous writing helped to develop a character who then gave me the answer. What a great question though. I have put things aside and often wonder if I was too hasty.
Lisa,
thanks for visiting my site.
Those two reasons of yours for abandoning/neglecting a current work seem reasonable to me as well.
I think the extraneous writing you refer to helps to overcome fears, instability and even, as you mentioned, some obscures as well.
It must have been really interesting to write and just see your character coming out of 'darkness'.
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