Last week, I was on the "hot seat" during the fiction workshop. Usually, I enjoy the experience. I learn a lot. I get great advice on how to improve my work. But last week was different.
I left workshop feeling defeated. I felt I should give up writing and do something else, anything else, really.
And I've thought a lot about the experience and what made it different this time. Part of it is that I'm trying something new. Something outside my wheelhouse, so to speak. And it isn't so much that it is going badly, it's more like it isn't going as well as I think it should.
My writing feels a bit off because I'm not writing the way that comes naturally to me.
So, I'm going to try a different approach to what I'm doing. It may not work. Or it might. I won't know until I write it, but I believe in the project enough to give it a really hard go.
Go forth and write!
I left workshop feeling defeated. I felt I should give up writing and do something else, anything else, really.
And I've thought a lot about the experience and what made it different this time. Part of it is that I'm trying something new. Something outside my wheelhouse, so to speak. And it isn't so much that it is going badly, it's more like it isn't going as well as I think it should.
My writing feels a bit off because I'm not writing the way that comes naturally to me.
So, I'm going to try a different approach to what I'm doing. It may not work. Or it might. I won't know until I write it, but I believe in the project enough to give it a really hard go.
Go forth and write!