Inspiration for the Day (Last one I swear)

Okay I think I will just limit IFTD to once a week from now - which will start next week because I've got one more to share today. :) But this will be the last one this week I swear!

P.S. This time I blame ITunes. They're eeeeeeevil. :)

Inspiration for the Day

Okay I swear this isn't going to be a trend but here is another good song of IFTD. Hey I blame Pandora for bringing up such good songs. :D

Inspiration for the Day

This song I first heard at the end of The Chronicals of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

I thought it was really moving, so I hope all the rest of you enjoy it too.

Instant Gratification

Today I decided to write about instant gratification because lets face it the world we live in now is all about getting what we want immediately. For instance, remember when we were kids and Mom would take pictures, we'd have to wait a week or more to get them developed (and that was fast!). Now my kids are like "Can we see it?" and there it is on the the screen for them to view right away.

Its the same for almost everything. Music - instant downloads from Itunes. You have a question - immediately look up the answer on our phones of all things. You want a book that came out today? Sure you don't even have to go to the bookstore anymore. Just download it to your IPad. We're all about instant gratification in this age.

Well for those of us without agents and editors (those with them you still know what I'm talking about because you didn't start out with them) or writing groups for that matter, writing is extremely hard because we don't get that instant feedback. We don't have people telling us right away that this chapter is fantastic! or tweak this and it will be a thousand times better. I'm not sure if I can talk for every author out there but I know I feel it - Self Doubt. And insecurity is killer in the writing industry.

The intangibility of our trade makes it hard to feel like a success - at least before publication (afterward is a completely different story) - without someone there telling us that their opinions on our work. How do we know its any good?

So how do you deal with self doubt? How do you reassure yourself that what you are writing is really worth reading?

I posted this before but I figured it could bear repeating.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~Sylvia Plath

Cliche

Have you ever written a scene only to feel like it is a screaming cliche? I was just in the process of rewriting my opening and characters were demanding me to write it a certain way, but the scene just seems so cliche! So done before.

And of all the parts of your story you need to be startlingly innovative - in every sense of the word - the opening is it.

So now I'm just sitting here staring at the screen trying to figured out how is God's green earth will I spice it up and make it different. The scenario must change but the characters are still demanding their due.

Hmmm.....

Such are the problems of an author.

Inspiration for the day

This is a new song that's been added to THE TOUCH OF DEATH's playlist. Its a bit harder than most of the others but I just love it!

I Don't Care by Apocalyptica

Sorry guys for some reason the player isn't working so here is the link to the youtube page. Its really worth listening to!

The Brick Wall

Yup still working on the changes to THE TOUCH. And to tell you the truth, I haven't actually made much headway with it, mainly because I have to re-enter my story. And that is an absolutely horrible thing to have sitting over my head. Starting the story over again - re-entering my world and having to match up with the rest of the preexisting storyline is just a stressful, aggravating, and disheartening thing to have to do.

*Sigh* Sorry, I don't mean to sound so whiny but I needed to vent. Writing she is a fickle beast. One day you're plowing ahead at full speed and feeling wholly optimistic, and then next you hit a dead end and have to start digging you're way out.