on the power of showing up
note: I wrote this post in April of 2019 (pre-COVID). It's been sitting in my drafts for quite a while, but I think it's time for it to see the light of day. It's been helpful for me to reread over the past few months, especially as I continue to try to make an effort to write, and I hope it can be helpful to you, too. i got an invite to a writers' group a few months ago, and i had never felt like more of a fraud in my life. it had been months, if not years, since i'd felt like a writer. the proverbial well of words in my heart had dried up, it seemed, and i wasn't sure if it was ever coming back. i agreed to go out of a sense of helplessness—i'd identified as a writer ever since i could remember. if i'm not a writer, who am i? i told myself that it was important to show up and act like a writer even when i didn't feel like one, because even though i hadn't been writing, i reassured myself, i still was a writer. but sometimes the words f
Yay! Beautiful People! I really do hope you guys host the linkup again. And a lot of fun listening to the vlogs. :)
ReplyDeleteAh, your vlog quality is so much better than mine! Hehe, I think I have camera envy. Great vlogs, by the way! So nice to put names to faces :)
ReplyDeleteYayyyz! I finally get to hear Sky's VOICE!! And you two are so funny - definitely get together again to make more vlogs. ;)
ReplyDelete"I feel like I'm its....aunt." :D
About what you were saying about your other novels being 'trash' - well, first of all they're not but I know what you mean, as I have novels like that too. But anyways, I heard somewhere that usually you have to write two novels before you get anything worth publishing, like "Silver Tears." So I think that's a normal thing. It has been for me - I wrote two dumb novels and then got "Torn Heart" which I self-published.
I did Nano last year for the first time. I had always been skeptical of it but I took the plunge and I am so glad I did! It was one of the most fun things I have ever done - and I did win. *phew* Favorite character was my FMC, Dust, who's just this sweet, gentle, rather ditzy girl who is still tough at the same time...she sticks out like a sore thumb in the place where she lives.
Again, I loved your vlog.
Awww! This was fun. I enjoyed it, guys! ^__^
ReplyDeleteI always loved doing Beautiful People but gracious do I understand being too busy for it, so whatever you guys do I'm perfectly okay with.
I'm still in shock NaNo is just in...4 days now? O_O I have an outline and everything but still...NaNo came SO FAST.
Good luck to both of you!! <3