Sunday, November 1, 2009

Crap writing!

Here are some of the maladies I suffer from when it comes to writing:

Fragmented thought process. Well this one I suffer from no matter what I am doing!

See both sides of the coin which drives me crazy because I can argue for either/or and once I begin with that – it’s all aimless wandering after that with me torn in multiple directions.

Too many thoughts which grow out of one common idea but then they take off like uncontrolled tributaries (I know tributaries come back home but mine are taking off!!)… eeksss

Oh yeah – those grammatical errors!

And when I decide I am going to own language and make up my own words and break every rule of expression – this one I don’t quite feel is so bad about. I actually love this part of writing. When a word becomes my own… like hmmm right now I am feeling all India-fied because I am thinking of monsoon there.

Sometimes – I start writing about red and end up with blue!

Okay – so it’s not like we were not warned about this by our creative writing teachers - but the problem is that I never took them seriously!

1 comments:

Valentina said...

in one of my creative writing classes, a teacher told us about an author who keeps one notebook open for the story she's working on, and another open for all the unrelated ideas she gets while working.