Do ya? Do ya?
Or maybe you’re a writer already but things are going just the way you’d like and you’re having a crisis of faith in your decision to write and be a writer.
It happens. I suspect to all of us. At some point we break down, throw our hands in the air and question … well, everything!
by Peggy BechkoWriters are always digging for tips on how to do it quicker, better, more detailed, less so, whatever!
But I note the dreaded first draft is frequently skipped or maybe sort of glossed over. So, let’s take a look.
You’re a writer, you have a great idea, but all sorts of ‘tips’ are hanging you up. You don’t want to be too wordy, you worry about what your ‘first’ reader might think, you want to get everything just right – right from the beginning.
Not going to happen. Really.
Have you ever had one of those days?
Of course you have.
All right, folks, it’s time to listen up and shut up.
Seriously.
People constantly interrupt each other. And if they don’t actually do that, then in their heads they’re chatting away with themselves, not listening to what someone else is saying, planning on what they’re going to say next. It’s the truth and you know it. Everyone is guilty of it one time or another. Probably more than we’d like to admit.
It’s a busy time here in my writer’s cave (otherwise known as my office) populated by myself and my three faithful dogs who lay in various beds and spots of sunshine while I write.
I barely have time to add a blog post since not only am I writing and illustrating comic books (the fourth in the first volume will be out in March! – Planet Of The www.facebook.com/PlanetOfTheEggs
Eggs – Eruption!) but I’m painting all my kitchen cabinets as well and submitting screen scripts while pondering writing a current screen script into manuscript form as well.
That last one, the screen script to manuscript, is vampires in the old west. What do you think? Want to read about vampires on horseback, trains, heroic rescues, a German stable master and his stash of silver and an amazing shaman?