Uncategorized 01 Jun 2007 06:33 pm
At last!
I think I’ve finally worked out how I want this website to look. Wordpress isn’t exactly user friendly but I’ve worked out bits and pieces. Now back to writing!
I’ve been doing a lot more reading of inspirational work, like Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. My writing practice was suffering greatly from feeling like I had to produce, produce, produce and stay up-to-date with marketing and promotion.
Since I have no idea of how to effectively promote, I went into a tailspin because I really hate doing it. The pleasure of writing and how that makes my sense of beauty and creativity happy got lost. So reading the books above and work from other writers like Natalie Goldberg brings me back to a more grounded place where I remember the writing is the most important thing. Not that promotion isn’t important, but I need a plan, not a sense of panic.
But I feel like I’m back to some equilibrium and submitted a novella I’ve been working on for a while. And there are other projects in development I’m more positive about.
on 15 Jun 2007 at 8:22 am 1.Teresa Noelle Roberts said …
Hi, hopped over here from PI.
Good luck with your own “mental refreshment.” We all need a reminder that we got into this line of work because we love to write. If we loved marketing, we’d be in marketing, and probably making a lot more money.
I think you’ve just given me a good idea. I’m definitely in a rut, feeling like a writer-gerbil on a wheel… It may be time to haul out the inspirational reading again, and to write more poetry. Maybe even (gasp!) fanfic. Writing something completely silly and unpublishable about the gang from Firefly always seems to jumpstart my brain.