Insecure in the New Year

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It's the first Wednesday of the new year today, which means that it's time to welcome all you fellow insecure writers out there and most definitely time to say hi to all of you out there who are in the same boat I've boarded many many years ago...

But first things first....

Happy New Year!!!!

How did you spend your holidays this year (or rather last year)? I spent New Year's Eve in London this year, at a Vintage New Year Party, having a great time with my friends. I bought up with old university and school buddies, visited my old haunts and did a great bit load of sale shopping.

The one thing I did not do, although it preyed on my mind constantly, is write. The new year, it seems starts much as the old one ended - with me doubting myself, not able to believe myself capable of putting pen to paper in any constructive sort of way. There are scenes and dialogues bumping around inside my head (par for the course, that) but I have yet to write a word that's non-job-related this year. So, I'm insecure as H to start with the writing again. It's not exactly the dreaded Blank Page Phenomenon, but still, there's butterflies the size of planes and as vicious as wet wasps buzzing around in my stomach whenever I think of opening my notebook.

How about you guys? How are you doing so far this year?


ps. I'm also insecure about the fact that I'm incapable of keeping my blogging up at the moment. I keep meaning to fix a schedule and keep to it, but somehow, it's not working.

Hardly a Day

Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of things I should be doing, things I want to do, things left unfinished. The act of writing features constantly in these thoughts, it haunts me, follows me wherever I go and does not let me rest at night without at least a scene or two playing in my head. 

We're in the middle of December already, and the time for New Year's Resolutions is looming up ahead, just beyond the shadow of the christmas tree and on the other side of that mound of old, sparkly wrapping paper and stray bits of still-sticky tape. I know what I will want to accomplish next year, and it will be a list that covers many things from this year's derelict accounting of should-bes. 

I'm not giving up, though. By the end of the year, I want to at least clear my desk. I want to sort out my calendar and enter all important birthdays, anniversaries, and must-not-miss dates. I want to decide what travels I will embark on during 2015. 

What about you? How are you faring with your 2014 goals, and do you have any set for next year, yet?

It's the first Wednesday of the Month, and we're all Insecure...

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Hello my dearies, and welcome to this month's post!

I don't know about you, but November is always a very special month for my writerly insecurities. It's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time, and yes, I'm Doing It Again.

I find NaNo both wonderfully freeing and terrifyingly revealing of any writing issues I have. There's nothing quite like putting yourself under pressure to find all those cracks and crevasses you can normally gloss over - and that goes both for the writer and for the plot (or lack of it, as the case may be). When you have to write close to 2000 words a day to finish on time, and deal with a day job whilst doing so, there is no time for hesitation, but also no time to think things through. The result, for me, tends to be a whole lot of semi-coherent sentences that then need to be boxed into something recognisable as a plot. Judging from what I've written so far, I shudder to think of the amount of revision it will need.

But words are words, right? By the end of the month, I'll have 50.000 more words than I did before. That's something to help with the insecurities, right?

How are you guys and gals doing? Nanoing? If yes, I'm Tessa C over there ; )

Insecure Writers in September

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Hello my dearies!

Welcome to my blurb and to another month of Insecure Writers giving each other the support they need.

I don't know about you, but this summer was kind of busy for me. Lots of travelling, lot of catching up on projects at work after said travelling. Right now, I'm on holiday at the beach in Spain, and it's really, really relaxing. I've even managed to write some... only a couple of pages, but it's there, ink on paper.

Things tend to flow easier for me when I go old school and use my fountain pen on (preferably unlined) paper. Structuring works better when I use my laptop, but the flow of it, that comes when I see ink making marks on paper. I even have special kinds of ink, one that's very dark purple, almost black, and one that's dark grey. I like them, because they look different on paper, and somehow add value to whatever I write with it, if that makes any sense.

Do you have a preferred method of writing to get into the flow of it? Or maybe a particular place, or a ritual of sorts?



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