Writers Block or Just a Lazy Git that’s what I’m trying to figure out this morning. I started out at the beginning of the year with an ebook in mind, more than one month later there are 5 pages complete. Now don’t get me wrong I have not just been sitting watching day time TV, I have been writing other stuff. However my output seems to be diminishing as the year goes on – that is crap. I seem to be getting more comfortable with not doing what I have planned – crazy stuff.
I spoke to a friend who earns a fair part of his income from writing and he just tells me it is hard work, just sit down and do it. Sometimes he says he find it incredibly difficult, but it does have to be done – he works to deadlines on a fairly regular basis and I have seen him as some of these approach and he does go a bit mental.
Another friend was visiting yesterday, I set up his blog – Dermot – we were at Uni together and for a while shared a student apartment. Anyway I was telling him my woes, inability to write etc – and he replies “Just like trying to write an essay at uni.” And yes in many ways it is. Except I was always on time for all my essays, (except one that did not get handed in due to Dara – but that’s a whole different story), I was just shit scared with essays – there was a deadline – I often did not think my work would be good enough, it was, and in many regards I just went mental. I would lock myself away while writing an essay – I did nothing else except go to classes and sometimes not even that. My room would be littered with notes, the floor would be covered with papers and I would sit there and write, so much work and intensity for a couple of thousand words. These would be the main differences to the present situation.
So now I don’t put myself under the same sort of pressure, I go for lunch with friends instead…
Perhaps the answer is staring me in the face.
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