Nerd Church - The Writer Diaries: I Need To Be More Patient With My Writing

I've recently started re-writing a story/novella/novel* that I started writing when I was a teenager... about a decade ago.

And I want it to be finished.

But I know that there's a butt-tonne of work to do to it (I'm basically re-writing the whole thing and making it less... melodramatic...  as well as changing the focus a bit.)

*It's been the length of all of these at one time or another 🙈




I'm not a patient person.

I want things done, and I want things done yesterday.

But I'm also really cr*p at organisation, and definitely hare-brained. This is not the same as being patient, but tends to result in things being done in a similar (or later) time-frame 😅

That doesn't change the fact that, at heart, I'm an impatient little so-and-so.




I'm not work-shy.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am more than willing to put in enough (in fact, probably too much,) work.




I just... have so much to put into this story.

Writer friends will understand when I say that this is The One That Won't Leave You Alone.

Even when I put it on hold - sometimes for literally years - I somehow always keep coming back to it.

And I'm so eager to get all of the things that I want to put from my head onto the page, and get them down the way that I want them to be, that I get really frustrated that IT WON'T GET OUTTA MY HEAD FAST ENOUGH!




And then I get more frustrated, because it's not the way I want it to be yet, and overwhelmed, because there's still too much to do.

I'm trying to listen to my own advice though - it's a marathon, not a sprint, and it doesn't matter if it's cr*p, because I don't have to show anyone until I'm happy with it.

I can abandon the whole thing, and it won't matter (I can't abandon the whole thing - it won't let me - but that's a different issue.)




I've gotta keep reminding myself that going slowly is ok, and it'll be ready when it's ready - if it's ever ready.

And if it's not ever ready? That's ok.

It doesn't have to be - I'm not under contract. I don't have a deadline. I haven't sold it to anyone.

And nothing's stopping me from working on other stuff (for example, this blogpost!) while I'm working on it.

The one thing I can't do, though, is stop writing altogether. I have to write! It's like breathing or whatever 😅

Do you get frustrated when things - (it doesn't have to be writing) - aren't going as quickly as you'd like them to?

Fellow writers: do you have that one project which won't let go of you?

Talk to me! 😘💬

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Last updated: 14th Jan 2019