Write on Wednesday
This week’s Write on Wednesday is about making time to write every day.
Ever since I started NaNoWriMo, my writing has been ridiculous. I write like a crazed maniac for a month, then barely write at all for the rest of the year. I hardly ever finish anything: that’s incredibly rare for me. However, I do write things every day: schoolwork, blogs, forum posts…obviously it’s not the kind of writing we’re talking about here, but at least I try to make some kind of use of my creative energies!
Do I think everybody should? Absolutely! I’m fully aware that I’m speaking as a hypocrite here, but writing is a craft and it needs practising. Even just writing in a diary is practising writing, and good writing is essential for everyone, not just those who want to write for pleasure. It’s a way to explore ideas and communicate with others. So many people have such poor standards of writing and pretty much give up at the soonest available opportunity, and I think that probably a good percentage of them would actually enjoy it if they made the time to do it.
This year, November’s going to be very busy for me with exams and such, but I’m still participating in nanowrimo. I’m not aiming for 50,000 words, though: I’m aiming to write every day and maybe even finish some stuff. I’m sick of being a hypcrite; if I think everyone should write every day, why shouldn’t I?
Write on Wednesday
This week’s Write on Wednesday: what’s your wildest writing dream?
Mine: to write a book and have it published.
There: short and sweet. Someone once said that no book is ever finished but abandoned, but if it’s published, then someone, somewhere thinks it’s good enough to abandon now and thinks that someone out there will want to read it. That’s enough.
