Maiden post and what this blog is about
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Katharina Chase
January 2011
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Written by
Katharina Chase
January 2011

So I've just joined SheWrites with the hope it will help motivate me to write daily, or at least regularly.  I have a couple of blogs which have been rather stop-start in nature, not yet worth sharing I think.

 

This blog is going to be about my writing journey, past and present.  Each post will be one element from my writing journey to date, and one element from my current writing experience.  I aim to work through my issues with my inner critic, motivation and drive, focus and discipline, time and application through this blog.  Most of all, I'll just be enjoying having settled on one broad topic for a blog and going with it.

 

My earliest memory of words and writing centres around my parents.  I think I must have been around three or four, prior to starting school or learning to read and write, when I used to sit across from my mum or dad when they read the newspaper and look at the black words printed (upside down from my perspective) in so many hundreds of lines.  I was hooked.  It wasn't long before I wanted my own sheet of paper and a crayon, and I would dilligently copy out headlines, having no idea what the words said.  It wasn't so much about the meaning; I was just fascinated with the letters, their form and construction, and the exercise of copying, the aesthetics of the end result.  I recently discovered a pile of old printer paper I'd been given as scrap, covered in my crayon headlines.

 

Now, I am struggling with narrowing my topic down.  I want to write, so badly, and I do it all the time, without even thinking.  But I want to write books.  Yet I can't find time to work on one particular idea.  There's something of a fear attached to it I think, as though if I concentrate on the one idea I will block out a whole bunch of other fabulous ideas and miss the 'good' one.  I know this is irrational, and really just my brain's way of stopping me from writing, that fear getting in the way.  The old fear of failure rears its ugly head, and I think: "Well if I don't do it at all, how can I fail?"  But how can I succeed if I don't at least begin?  I have so many ideas, and I think they're 'good'... I always think of that scene in Seinfeld where Elaine has a revelation about 'being a writer': "Yes, interesting, people LOVE interesting writing!"  For me, though, regardless of all these fabulous ideas, and motivation aside, there is one question remaining: how does one write a story, with a beginning, middle and end, with only 'concepts' to work from? Does a concept make a story?  Or is a story composed of many concepts joined together?  Is concept writing boring?  Hmm, that's more than one question...

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