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I resolve to write more prose this year, and to do so using the private function on my lj. While you won't see this work, at least I will do it. Goal -- 4 pages of prose per day no matter what it is. I begin simply today with a journal entry about my writing process. I write it with all of you in mind as audience, but without showing it to you.
It's an enlightening bit of soul-searching, and it's the kind of assignment which allows me to succeed. I can do this. I can write prose again.
ETA: I'm surprisingly good at keeping New Year's Resolutions, btw.
ETA: I realize I made something close to the same resolution a couple of years back and succeeded with it. Don't remember why I lapsed, but the interim has hurt. I'm struggling to make my four pages here on the first day. I'm up to three, but experiencing all kinds of self doubt. Shit. I've always said I'm a poet, not a writer. Otoh, Jenn argued a long while ago I'm also a novelist who just hasn't written a first novel yet. I'd like to make her assessment finally come true. One more page. I can do this.
ETA: A scene. I have a scene, and it's starting to finally write itself. That's what I miss. The not trying. The letting it say what it wants to say. The flow, and you don't remember after that you had to DO anything. It just speaks.
It's an enlightening bit of soul-searching, and it's the kind of assignment which allows me to succeed. I can do this. I can write prose again.
ETA: I'm surprisingly good at keeping New Year's Resolutions, btw.
ETA: I realize I made something close to the same resolution a couple of years back and succeeded with it. Don't remember why I lapsed, but the interim has hurt. I'm struggling to make my four pages here on the first day. I'm up to three, but experiencing all kinds of self doubt. Shit. I've always said I'm a poet, not a writer. Otoh, Jenn argued a long while ago I'm also a novelist who just hasn't written a first novel yet. I'd like to make her assessment finally come true. One more page. I can do this.
ETA: A scene. I have a scene, and it's starting to finally write itself. That's what I miss. The not trying. The letting it say what it wants to say. The flow, and you don't remember after that you had to DO anything. It just speaks.