Tuesday, May 27, 2008
How to start writing
The key to starting to write is to write.
Oh so simple, oh so easy for me to say - and so ludicrously hard for me to do. As a boss prevaricator in the vast underworld realm of prevarication, I find getting started on the latest project next to impossible. Every...single...time.
And I go through a pointless, anxiety inducing, and entirely destructive thought process that includes such nuggets of wisdom as, 'I don't know what I'm doing', and 'I've forgotten how to write', and 'I'm rubbish'. Every...single...time.
When of course I haven't forgotten how to write - I just don't know quite how to write this particular project...YET.
And the correct response to this dumb exercise?
Write.
Anything. Doesn't have to be the project in hand - this would count (and I am counting it, believe me). Because it's action, and action provokes energy and thought, and before you know it, you're in there - you're writing.
Huzzah.
Just in case you thought you were the only one.
note; this does not apply to writers forged in the furious fire of continuing drama, such as my pals JP, MG and AP, who, used to the relentless weekly demand for 'words, damn you, get me words for the actors to say and get me them now', don't bother with such self-indulgence. They just get on and get it written. Swines.
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Writing for me involves several hours of Facebook, blogging and the occasional trip to the toilet.
Then I might do 30 minutes of mad writing, which is usually crap, but several pages a day of crap is better than none of genius.
That was me by the way, stupid brother has been fannying around with my computer again.
I write, I wrote, I've written. Now I need help. Don't suppose you provide a spec sitcom critique service, do ya?
Nope. I leave script editing to the experts.
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