WHAaaaAAAt??
I'm posting on Wednesday?
Sorcery.
~
So.
Its Wednesday.
And I just wanted to, like,
talk about something that's been on my mind.
I decided at the beginning of the year that writing more was going to be a resolution of mine.
There was going to be a post about those by the way.
Since then,
I've not written...
well
anything.
And its been very frustrating,
because I want to write.
But I just have myself held to all of these standards
that I can't fulfill because I'm not the people who have achieved this standard.that I am now holding myself to.
I am not Jo Rowling.
I am not Rick Riordan.
I am not any of the Brontë sisters.
I am just me.
Simple, distracted, little me.
And as I've been thinking about this in great depth
Because heaven knows I have far too much time on my hands.
I've realised that this whole idea that you can't do something because you're not as good at it as someone else is not only, complete and utter rubbish
but also applies to so many more situations then the one that I'm currently in.
And as you read this, I'd like you to just keep that in mind.
So, writing.
A lot of people don't realise how...hard it actually is.
And how much thought goes into the things you read.
Its so much more than just an idea and some words.
Because every writer has this idea in their head that they have to be as good or better than someone else.
And so we over think and we over analyse and then we get stuck.
And then we stop.
And when we stop its really hard to get started again
because
we never really, fully stop.
Because we always have the story that we're sure is going to be our big break in the back of our minds
and we're always seeing or thinking of new content that we'd like to have in our plot line.
But we can never figure out a way to make all of it fit together.
And so, we just don't write.
And that's a problem
because we don't need to compare ourselves to Jo, or rick,
or Emily or Charlotte
Because we're not them.
We are Ashlie, and Emma, and Anne, and Joey, and Tony and everyone else.
We are ourselves
and that's all we really need to be.
~
I think I wanted to add more.
But like I'm now uploading this on Thursday.
So we're just going to call it good.
...
BYEEEEE!!
STALK ME!
Instagram: Shlieshelz
Since then,
I've not written...
well
anything.
And its been very frustrating,
because I want to write.
But I just have myself held to all of these standards
that I can't fulfill because I'm not the people who have achieved this standard.that I am now holding myself to.
I am not Jo Rowling.
I am not Rick Riordan.
I am not any of the Brontë sisters.
I am just me.
Simple, distracted, little me.
And as I've been thinking about this in great depth
I've realised that this whole idea that you can't do something because you're not as good at it as someone else is not only, complete and utter rubbish
but also applies to so many more situations then the one that I'm currently in.
And as you read this, I'd like you to just keep that in mind.
So, writing.
A lot of people don't realise how...hard it actually is.
And how much thought goes into the things you read.
Its so much more than just an idea and some words.
Because every writer has this idea in their head that they have to be as good or better than someone else.
And so we over think and we over analyse and then we get stuck.
And then we stop.
And when we stop its really hard to get started again
because
we never really, fully stop.
Because we always have the story that we're sure is going to be our big break in the back of our minds
and we're always seeing or thinking of new content that we'd like to have in our plot line.
But we can never figure out a way to make all of it fit together.
And so, we just don't write.
And that's a problem
because we don't need to compare ourselves to Jo, or rick,
or Emily or Charlotte
Because we're not them.
We are Ashlie, and Emma, and Anne, and Joey, and Tony and everyone else.
We are ourselves
and that's all we really need to be.
~
I think I wanted to add more.
But like I'm now uploading this on Thursday.
So we're just going to call it good.
...
BYEEEEE!!
STALK ME!
Instagram: Shlieshelz
Don't stop believing! Hold on to that feeling!!!!!!!!!!
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