This post is part of the monthly blog hop/therapy session known as the Insecure Writers Support Group, founded by the one and only, Alex J. Cavanaugh. If you're a writer, insecure, or just supportive of writers—insecure or not—please join us. It happens the first Wednesday of each month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words will be appreciated.
This month’s question? Did you ever say, “I quit”?
If so, what happened to make you come back to writing?
Me?
Quit writing?
Never!
But I have quit a manuscript.
But not for long because
It was painfully annoying
And the guilt was killing me.
Manuscript: Hey Em! Why are you putting me away?
I don’t want to be put into a file.
Me: It won’t be for long.
Manuscript: I don’t want to be forgotten like all those poems you’ve written and haven’t looked at again.
Me: I just lost passion for them. Got insecure. I promise
I’ll bring you out again.
A few months went by
Manuscript: Hey Em! Remember me?
Me: Oh hi, manuscript.
Manuscript: See! You did forget about me. Didn’t you ever wonder how I was doing? Didn’t you care that I might have felt abandoned? Lonely?
Me: Well now that you mention it, yeah I did wonder.
Manuscript: Then take me out. Give me life again.
And I did.
Because the guilt I felt for abandoning my manuscript. . .
Wasn't worth it.
And actually I am in the process of working on the query for the manuscript to send to agents. . .
Yet again! Lord help me!!
So?
What about you?
Did you feel guilty?
Always,
Em-Musing
8 comments:
You came back to it - great!
I feel guilty for abandoning an idea since it might be the only one I'll have for a while.
Oh I just feel guilty all the time. It has nothing to do with writing specifically. :-P
Yes and yes! I have at least four projects "in the hiatus/waiting time" while I work on my current WIP. I keep meaning to go back to them because the characters live in my head. Someday ....
You're right, I might not have quit, but I do have some very lonely manuscripts clamouring for my attention. I can feel the characters calling to me and I have to keep telling them to wait and be patient!
Sometimes we need a break. And sometimes, the work doesn't let us do even that. Happy writing!
I have abandoned one manuscript for the first time ever because the plot wasn't working for me. I suspect it will get broken into pieces and used in other books lol
I've abandoned manuscripts for different reasons, usually because I decide I just don't want to work on that particular story. Writing a book takes immense time and effort, and I see no reason to pursue a project that no longer interests me. Not to say I won't go back to it at some time in the future.
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