The Loss of Creativity

I was right, before, about what would happen if I chose the movie over writing.  Every single drop of creativity has drained out of me.  I can't write, I can't paint.  I can barely even find the words to express myself in this blog.  Non-writers, you should be very glad that your happiness doesn't depend on your ability to create a good story.  Imagination is fickle, fellow authors, and will abandon you at some pretty crucial moments.  All of a sudden, you'll open the Word document containing your work in progress, and want to delete all of it.  You'll be sure that you'll never finish it, and that it doesn't matter anyway, because it's horrible.  I know.  I go through it pretty often.  At this very moment, I'm close to deleting my entire book and just trying to forget about writing.  But I know I can't.  Eventually I'll finish it, and while it may not be a masterpiece, at least I'll be able to say that I wrote a book.  It'll probably never be published, but I plan to keep trying, and just do the best that I can.  After all, that's all anybody can do.  We just have to keep trying, and eventually, we'll get something right.

Family or Writing?

One of the hardest things about being a writer is having to make a choice between spending time with your family or writing.  For the past month, I've been stricken with writer's block.  Tonight it's gone, but my family wants me to watch a movie with them.  This happens a lot.  Now I have to decide: take advantage of the ideas forming in my head and risk offending my family, or watch the movie but lose one of the few opportunites I have to write.  I've had to make this choice before, and usually I choose writing over my family.  It's probably not the kindest decision, but it's done with.  Now, should I make up for all the lost time with family, or try to be heartless and continue writing?  I guess I still have a few minutes left before I have to decide, but it's occupying my thoughts.  I know I miss out on a lot of opportunities in life because I choose writing instead of going out and having fun with friends.  Maybe it's time to put writing aside for a while and just enjoy other aspects of life.  But if I do that, will I still have all of these ideas later, or will I be too tired to think, let alone write?  Decisions, decisions, decisions...  Life's full of them - for everybody, not just authors.

Introduction

I'm Lynn.  As you may possibly have guessed, I'm an aspiring author.  This blog is to share my opinions and stories about my life, and maybe some people will actually read them.  Maybe not.  Who knows?  Either way, I plan to keep talking.  Some people may not agree with my opinions.  I can respect that.  If you find my opinions offensive, sorry.  You should probably leave, because I plan to share them.  A lot.  You should probably also know that I'm VERY liberal, and that will influence a lot of what I say.  That being said, welcome to my blog!  Make yourselves at home!  I know this is short, but I'll try to post again soon.  Not, of course, that anyone actually cares at this point.

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