It appears I did it again…..
I neglected this blog yet again. I think this was like the third time now. Again, I’m really sorry. My internet connection sucked. Okay, I’ll admit that I lived in the land of Dial-Up. Yes, that does actually still exist. It was unreliable and super slow, so blogging took awhile. I got busy with other things included trying to get my book to the end (we’ll talk about that in a moment) and working on my jewelry and hair accessories that I sell (It would make me the happiest girl in the world if you checked out my etsy store…. just saying..)
So here I am, back at my blog now with high speed internet. Yes, I have finally made it out of dial up. Thank goodness. So hopefully I’ll be able to blog more now that it won’t take me hours to post. Of course, it can make writing a little more difficult considering the distraction it can be. But, good news is that I’m about three or four chapters away from finishing my book. That’s always a good thing, right?
My problem always has been finishing though. I sort of freeze up and really start to feel the pressure. Everyone starts asking if I have finished yet, what am I going to do with afterwards, how I’m going to get it published. Blah, blah, blah. All of this pressure starts to build up and I freeze. I start getting really critical about the words I type and whether it’s good enough to actually publish. Yes, my book is about the start of a zombie apocalypse, but it’s not completely full of zombies either. It’s really character driven and sometimes I’m not sure if that’s what people want. I know you can’t please everyone and we all have bad critics who want to bash everything we do but……. I don’t know. Sometimes it’s hard to get past the inner critic in my own head to get to those outside critics.
That’s my biggest problem. The inner critic always wants to bring me down. Will I let it? Of course not. But, it’s always a bitch to get over. How do you turn off the inner critic in your head to get the work completed? Let me know in the comments section below!
“what people want” is very often the idiotic pandering to the idiotic masses. Write something you find interesting, and undoubtedly there will be others who find it interesting as well!
I… I don’t have an incredibly strong inner critic. Part of it is how I write; I just keep writing, no looking back, then do editing shortly afterwards while I’m still into the writing. So that’s what I’d have to recommend: just get the words out without paying attention to what’s come before or what you just wrote, and then go from there.
I had my inner critic working overtime while I was trying to write a first draft. I ended up constantly reminding myself the first draft didn’t have to be perfect and just get the words down. It shut my inner critic up a bit.
The Undeveloped Story is hereby nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award! Again. :p http://tinyurl.com/8yjdgn4
Haha thank you!
I’ll get around to posting these awards eventually… soon! But, thank you again! I really appreciate it.
My inner critic never knows when to shut up–drives me crazy!1 I write and blog humor, so usually inspiration is not too far away. I can usually find something funny in almost everything. But right now I’m kinda stuck on the last few chapters of a collection of humorous essays, and making excuses not to get back to it. Share your story with friends and they’ll boost your confidence–might just be the push you need to finish your book! Good luck!