I have so many writing projects going on right now, it is easy to get overwhelmed. I’ve got a novel in development, a online blog-thing in the works, a short story to complete/work on and this site to post things to occaisionally. What I am trying to prevent is me getting so burned out that I drop all of them. I could just decide to focus on one, but I don’t think I have progressed to the point writing-wise where I have the attention span to focus on one thing. I get bored easily and something new and shiny is bound to come along. I kind of worry about it (although I realize that worrying is almost always unproductive). Oh, and I have to re-read a feature-length script at work and make notes on it. I’m worried I might just drop everything. Why is it so freaking hard for me to stick with things?
You know what I’m okay at writing? Commercials. Thirty second commercials? Why? Because they are only a page long. In any given hour for any given product, I’ll can probably churn out four commercial scripts and a couple of them are probably going to be pretty good. Why can’t I do anything longer that a page? Am I that ADD? I can have long, rambling conversations about any given topic, but when it comes to writing long chapters, I lock up. I get caught in the details. My characters slow to a crawl and then get clogged up with the minutia.
Plus, I really suck at plot.
I wonder if this is wise to post on my blog as a writer. Probably not. Do I care? Probably not. I’m probably not going to stick with this whole “writing” thing anyway.
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Don’t give up. I haven’t written in about two weeks. I’m blaming it on my callings. I’ve got three now, and am in charge of the camp fundraiser, so yeah, busy, and full-time job and such. I got into journalism because of how short articles are, but I don’t think I was ever passionate about it; I think I was just too lazy and ADD to write anything longer. I’m going to try and make myself write this week. So don’t give up, k?