Bunny with an axe ([info]bunnywithanaxe) wrote,
@ 2005-04-06 19:02:00
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Interlude-- writer's fright
For instance, I was going to post a follow up to the previous post, but I am working up to it. I know it is going to take a while, and a lot of thought, and when I think about sitting down and knocking it out, it actually feels kind of like stage fright. Different than just writer's block-- when I have writer's block, I just have nothing to say; I sit at the computer, try, give up.

In this case I have plenty to say, but it seems like such a chore to say it, with the strength I want to say it. I am worried it will come out wrong, that my words will never encompass what the incident meant to me; Perhaps it is the fact that I am doing it in Livejournal, and the whole world can see? perhaps I am just writing too damn much lately? ( I write for every class in some capacity).

As for writing nobody sees-- I had taken to journaling, but was finding that I did best with a blank sketchbook, as sometimes it seemed that words were not enough and I would have to illustrate my thoughts. I make all these excuses for leaving it behind, though-- too much to stuff in my book bag, too many other things I neeed to do, etc.More stage fright?



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Not Stage Fright so much...
[info]angry_wolf
2005-04-07 05:59 am UTC (link)
I have similar problems when I'm trying to write something very emotional or important. Its more of a panic attack than anything... there's so much to say and its so important to say it correctly that I freeze up and can't do anything. Its frustrating as hell. I have this one story I've been working on for three years, and I can't get through this one emotional scene...

Journaling is very good, at the very least for practice, but it sounds like you get plenty of that writing for your classes. Stop with the excuses and carry the notebook at all times. You never know when you'll be hit with something really good. I carry a 3X5 notepad with me, but I've learned to write very small...

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Re: Not Stage Fright so much...
[info]bunnywithanaxe
2005-04-11 04:51 pm UTC (link)
"there's so much to say and its so important to say it correctly that I freeze up and can't do anything."

There you go, there you go. :(

I think the fact that so much of my stuff is evaluated right now-- my on-air copy, my essays, my in-class free- writes-- is a large part of the problem; I do very littel writing for me anymore. And it seems like taking thetime to do that is just adding more to my work. But maybe I am looking at it thte wrong way....

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I can relate...
(Anonymous)
2005-04-11 07:33 am UTC (link)
When writing poetry these days, I have no hesitation
in sharing it with those I feel need it at the time;
but as far as my journalistic prose (in the form of
three diaries spanning several years which lie in one
of my desk drawers) are concerned, I have seriously
considered, on several occasions, destroying them in
a fiery blaze of glory while I'm still alive so that
(heaven forbid!) they'd be discovered and read some day
by God-knows-who, (regardless whether it's family or
not.)

It's strange: back at the time I was writing in them,
I was doing so with passion and soemtimes I even shared
entries here and there. Nowadays I practically regret
doing so and, as I said, I shudder at the thought of
someone some day opening them up and reading them.

McRat1968

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Re: I can relate...
[info]bunnywithanaxe
2005-04-15 03:12 am UTC (link)
Heh, what Sylvia Plath used to do was go back over her journals and argue with herself in the margins. I have tried that; can be kind of illuminating.

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Re: I can relate...
(Anonymous)
2005-04-16 06:40 am UTC (link)
Oh, I argue with myself (and all my other personalities), too.

All the time!

...(What's scary is....... sometimes I LOSE the argument!) ;o)

McRat



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Re: I can relate...
[info]bunnywithanaxe
2005-04-22 12:26 am UTC (link)
That's the point of the excercise ;)

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