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Are you ready to commiserate? Are you ready to join the action/? More importantly, are you ready to rumble?
Welcome my friends to that time of the month were all the writers near and far get together to swap a few war stories, a few laughs and a ton of liquid libations.
To briefly interrupt this lighthearted intro, I would like to say that family issues this year have kept me from blogging with a greater degree of frequency that I've normally employ, and for that, I do apologize. We're hoping that March will be a vast improvement over February.
And now, after that minor detour, we return to the topic at hand: writer's insecurities.
My current insecurity about my writing is that when I do finally get back to {presently working on six month hiatus} whatever story that I decide to work on, is that I'll draw a complete etch-a-sketch blank as to what I'm writing about.
In other words, not quite remembering the main plot and all the little sub-plots, as well as the p.o.v of the story, the state of mind/being for the main characters and other assorted details.
I've had this happen before with other stories that I've written over the years. I would write anywhere from four to six chapters of a novel, or a dozen pages of a medium-sized short story, stop at what I feel is a good point, then fail to return in a timely manner to work on/finish the story. I can't tell you how many times I've perused through stuff sitting on my shelf and say to myself, "this is actually pretty good. I wonder what the original plot was that I was pursuing?"
That my friends, is my current worry/insecurity of my writing life these days. What's yours?
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