In keeping with the A-Z theme that’s running around the
blogosphere right now, today’s post begin with the letter L, which in this case
stands for love what you do.
Pretty simple in theory. I mean, that’s why we spend as much
time with our stories as possible right? We love them.
But what happens when we don’t love them as much, or, worse,
not at all. Sometimes we have to let those stories go. Maybe not forever. I
don’t delete anything. I still have a file cabinet full of stuff typed on an
old-fashioned typewriter from back in the day. I save it all because you never
know when the magic might come back. But in the meantime I have to devote
myself to what moves me or figure out a way to make it move me.
How do you sustain the love for your story? What do you do
when the magic’s gone?
4 comments:
That's why I have several stories going. When one is kinda meh for me, I can move on to one that's more where my emotions are.
I think I push through out of sheer stubbornness. I'm determined to see it through to the end! When it gets rough, I take a vacation to write something short, but then I'm right back in there.
Like Samantha, sometimes we just have to push on. Currently I'm trying to finish a sequel that I keep falling in and out of. I try and work even when "out" of love with it, but allow myself to work on things I enjoy at the same time.
Ho boy. It is easy to lose. So many that I started out with are gone from the blogosphere.
along with the writers, some publishers too. *wiggling eyebrows*
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