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The first Wednesday of every month, an optional question is announced that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience, or even a story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post.
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The Awesome co-hosts today are:
Shannon Lawrence, Diedre Knight, Liza, and Pat Garcia!
August 5 question - As a writer/author what is something you regret? Or something that you wish you'd done differently in your writing process?
Remember, the question is optional!
I regret not taking my writing seriously way back when...
I had always been writing poems, short stories, and other ditties...
But I didn't see a career in writing.
Eventually, I became a copywriter for radio, TV, video, & film...
But I regret the time it took for me to realize I had talent...
My insecurities held me back
And then when I began writing novels...
I regret it took me even more time to consider trying to get published
My insecurities held me back
Ah, well . . . as the French say —c'est la vie.
And speaking of the French...
I was in Paris some years ago staying in an Airbnb...
I had one day alone before my next round of family and friends arrived...
So I sat down at the desk that was there and thought I'd get inspiration to write something amazing—by mere osmosis!
I mean. . . I was in the city where Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein,
Joyce, Ezra Pound, Miller and countess other authors had created some of their most creative works...
Something creative should have seeped into me.
But mais non...
Frustrated, I did a French thing and let something else seep into me.
OK, there was only a few drops left in the bottle of champaign I had the night before and I thought just a few golden droplets would somehow rally my muse.
Mais non.
Ah well...
I should have remembered the only thing alcohol has ever given me...
Was a headache the next morning.
Now, at this time of my life...
I don't want to waste anymore time being insecure.
What about you?
Do you have something you regret?
Or something that you wish you'd done differently in your writing process?
Are you insecure?
Always,
Em-Musing
7 comments:
That's great you don't want to be insecure anymore. Though I do think you were being practical, not considering writing a career. For most people, writing doesn't pay all the bills. And you've had writing-related jobs.
But you're on the path now and that's what matters.
Love the photos.
You reach a point in life where you say, "Who cares? I am doing this thing."
So you're about the 10th person I've read that said they wished they'd jumped in sooner. But hear me out: if you'd have jumped in sooner, where would your writing maturity have been? I think we underestimate how important that learning process is.
We regret so much, yet we do some brilliant things, so they have to outweigh our thoughts about what we "should" have done.
Oh, and BTW, those drops of Champagne have to entice any muse!
The photos make this! But I'm glad you are pushing past the insecurities.
Quite a few of us have similar regrets. Seems to go with the territory.
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