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Thursday, April 17, 2008

As a writer or aspiring writer, I love to write. I do find however, that sharing my work is a bit difficult for me. I guess I have always hidden my work from others. Leery of my parents disapproval, I did not want to share my inner most self with them. The writer in me sees things very differently from others or so I believe. Now having someone like Lynne who loves me unconditionally, I am still finding it difficult to share my writing with her, maybe because I am really a more private person than anyone would imagine if they met me. Lynne has seen some of my works and definitely seems to be a fan. Her reactions seem to be genuine, but still I struggle to open up to her completely.

I began writing about a month ago, and am working on a novel. I have not shared this information with her yet because I know as soon as I do, she will want to take a look at what I have so far. This is perhaps the most difficult thing for me to do is to share a work in progress. A work in progress for me is still not solid. I have a very unique style of writing in the fact that the ideas just come to me, and I rush to put them on paper and expand on them as they come. I don’t experience writer’s block. The next idea is always just on the horizon. When it enters my brain, I quick record that idea and need to get to the keyboard pretty quickly if I want to use it. There have been occasions where I have come up with a few ideas, made a few recorded notes about them and then had to wait a few days to get on the computer to expand on them. When this happens, usually by that time the idea has gone stale and my thoughts on it are not what they were at the time I got the idea.

If I have the opportunity to hop on the computer the moment I get the idea, then it is a fresh one and my writing will be very cohesive on that subject. I like to write short stories mostly, but this time I am challenging myself a little more by trying to write a full novel. It is a little more difficult as each time I set down to type I must continue from the point at which I left off. So far I think it is pretty good. I don’t outline or sketch out anything; I just type and keep typing. Then after a time I will go back reread and revise the story. I think that if I can get out a half way decent piece of material with this latest endeavor, then a may try and send it to a few publishing houses to take a look. I know that they could just totally hate it and reject it, but I am hoping that if they do, they will at least include a little bit of changes or improvements that I can make, instead of just saying they hate it.

This is probably another reason for my hesitancy to show it to Lynne. I really don’t want to get her hopes up unnecessarily.