I'm excited about the progress I'm making with the collection, even though I'm not doing a lot of actual writing yet. And, really, the excitement of knowing I'm making progress even if it doesn't look like it is what keeps me going on all this background work.
I love writing. And there's a lot of this background work that I enjoy. It means creating a world and populating it with people. It means crafting a story and reactions to what happens to the people. But that doesn't mean there's some tedium that comes along with all this background work. Research and outlining and scene sheets are not always exciting or fun or anything other than work, but they have to get done, particularly for this project.
All projects have aspects that aren't fun. Whether you dread background work or find the type of task that makes you want to rip your eyeballs out, writing can't always be flowing words and staring out windows. You have to put as much sweat on the page as you do heart. Often more.
But if you hang on and push through, you'll find that the story-telling parts will help get you through the eyeball-ripping parts. And all your readers will see is the heart.
Happy writing (or editing or researching)!
I agree. Lately I've been reluctant to work on my manuscript, because I'm in the revision stage; it's a lot of work and sometimes it's just more fun to watch Youtube videos of comedy clips than to review my manuscript. But I know that I'll feel better in the end if I do the work that I need to do.
ReplyDeleteThere's always time for YouTube when you've finished!
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