Comments on: Why didn’t you tell me… Writing is hard! http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/ The adventures of a new freelance copywriter Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Read this for me? | Life on Avenue Z http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-50009 Read this for me? | Life on Avenue Z Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:52:38 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-50009 [...] couple of weeks ago I wrote about an essay I was writing. After quite a bit of cussing and whining (and that was before the marathon), I finished a [...] [...] couple of weeks ago I wrote about an essay I was writing. After quite a bit of cussing and whining (and that was before the marathon), I finished a [...]

]]> By: SOndra http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46748 SOndra Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:07:04 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46748 I can relate! }{+Rio wrote this I can relate!
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]]> By: SOndra http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46747 SOndra Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:06:47 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46747 I can relate!1 I can relate!1

]]> By: Steph http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46638 Steph Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:56:41 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46638 Beth, it takes me forever too. I think it's because I can't take off my editor hat while I'm trying to write. Everything has to come out perfectly. But I've learned the trick is to let it all out, unadulterated, and edit it afterward. However, knowing the trick and being able to follow through with it are two different things! And finding the material, too, is very difficult. The best remedy for that, I think, is to make sure you're in a different environment altogether from the one in which you typically write your work copy. Find somewhere that inspires you, put on music or watch a movie or read a book that creates the feeling of getting ready to write for you. Beth, it takes me forever too. I think it’s because I can’t take off my editor hat while I’m trying to write. Everything has to come out perfectly. But I’ve learned the trick is to let it all out, unadulterated, and edit it afterward. However, knowing the trick and being able to follow through with it are two different things! And finding the material, too, is very difficult. The best remedy for that, I think, is to make sure you’re in a different environment altogether from the one in which you typically write your work copy. Find somewhere that inspires you, put on music or watch a movie or read a book that creates the feeling of getting ready to write for you.

]]> By: Mark McClure http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46548 Mark McClure Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:02:34 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46548 Why not blog it - rough and semi-polished - and let the publishers sniff it out? (With your agent's help.) Isn't this the future of publishing? Why not blog it – rough and semi-polished – and let the publishers sniff it out? (With your agent’s help.)

Isn’t this the future of publishing?

]]> By: Ingrid http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46512 Ingrid Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:01:31 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46512 As a pseudo-accountant the practical thing would be to stop and do a cost analysis of the time of writing and the profit of doing it. But, writers are not accountants, writer write and create for the pleasure and satisfaction of using words to create a world that others want to be in or apart of. How do you measure that? How do you measure an intangible? You don't. The time it took you to write all that, you may think it's a waste, but is it really? When, not if, you publish your book and it takes off, and your publisher wants another. How do you take that feeling of accomplishment and happiness and put a price on it? You will not remember this pain, these doubts, or the frustration. That's why writers or artists take the "pain". Because the product that comes out is amazing. And people like me, who are not creative, are thrilled with people like you are in this world. As a pseudo-accountant the practical thing would be to stop and do a cost analysis of the time of writing and the profit of doing it.

But, writers are not accountants, writer write and create for the pleasure and satisfaction of using words to create a world that others want to be in or apart of.

How do you measure that? How do you measure an intangible? You don’t. The time it took you to write all that, you may think it’s a waste, but is it really?

When, not if, you publish your book and it takes off, and your publisher wants another. How do you take that feeling of accomplishment and happiness and put a price on it? You will not remember this pain, these doubts, or the frustration.

That’s why writers or artists take the “pain”. Because the product that comes out is amazing. And people like me, who are not creative, are thrilled with people like you are in this world.

]]> By: pete http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46485 pete Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:23:58 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46485 Yeah, it's hard. But you're good at it! Good luck in Seattle! Yeah, it’s hard. But you’re good at it! Good luck in Seattle!

]]> By: chris http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46445 chris Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:59:08 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46445 Writing comes easy for you when you write for others because you're the person asking the questions. Then you build upon it - drawing more and more out of your clients until... Bam! The story to write is clear. That's what Beth is great at! So when it comes to your stories, who's asking you the questions? Perhaps writing isn't so hard after all. Hint: You're a great writer. Maybe the interviewing of yourself is your real challenge. Writing comes easy for you when you write for others because you’re the person asking the questions. Then you build upon it – drawing more and more out of your clients until… Bam! The story to write is clear. That’s what Beth is great at!

So when it comes to your stories, who’s asking you the questions?

Perhaps writing isn’t so hard after all. Hint: You’re a great writer. Maybe the interviewing of yourself is your real challenge.

]]> By: Jenny http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/2009/06/writing-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-46419 Jenny Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:36:32 +0000 http://www.lifeonavenuez.com/?p=748#comment-46419 It'll be worth it in the long run, trust me. It’ll be worth it in the long run, trust me.

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