For all you budding writers out there...

[amberdreams]

Just something that resonated with me that I found on the interwebz today.  Time to give myself a kick up the bum, methinks.

“

If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.

You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you just wrote because they had to be written next.

The process of writing can be magical. Mostly it’s a process of putting one word after another.

”

—	Neil Gaiman in conversation with Chris Hardwick. (via terribleminds)

Comments

[heavenli24.livejournal.com]

Very timely for me too - thanks for posting this.

I've been attempting to write an original novel the last few weeks and was just about ready to give up and start all over yesterday because I didn't feel inspired... but instead of ranting about it online, I decided to just suck it up and keep at it - haven't had time to write any more yet as I've been at work all day, but I've come home with the intention of writing tonight :).

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

Looks like you were already going with Neil's advice then - good luck with your writing tonight!