I am talking to the people who are afraid to say that they are writers. The ones who find it impossible to concentrate on their maths homework until the story in their head has been put to paper. The ones who read movie scripts for fun. I am speaking to those that are in medical school but have dreams about book signings instead of surgeries, or maybe they dream about both. Those that have private casting sessions in the street and the people who see the characters they've created come alive in complete strangers.
This blog is for you.
You, who wants people to read what you've written but hate to ask. You, who has sat, staring at a blank page or screen, fingers poised over the keyboard waiting for the words to come. You've doubted yourself. In those hours or days of complete blankness, you've wondered if you have any talent at all. You've asked yourself what will become of the people in your story, how their lives will continue without you. You've convinced yourself to move on, to forget about them and carry on with your real life. And then, at the most unfortunate time, the words have hit you over the head incessantly until you have no choice but to go back to writing.
If any of this does not seem creepy to you. If any of these things are vaguely familiar then you are a lot like me. You are me, the aspiring writer. I have felt all these things before. I've daydreamed about seeing a book of mine on a library shelf or on somebody's Kindle. I've considered publishing my own work but then I remembered that nobody who wasn't a friend or teacher had ever read it and that the closest I had ever come to having readers was that one time when my report appeared in the yearbook (It was barely a hundred words long and I doubt that anybody read it). Until now, thinking about being a writer was all I did.
I have decided to change that. Like many other people on the internet, I have chosen to overlook that fact that I am not an expert (this may be a massive understatement) and decided to solicit advice on writing.
The plan is to share the lessons that I am learning with the world and hopefully learn something from anybody who elects to give my beloved blog the time of day. I hope that my words will, in some way, help people like me on their way to being full-fledged wordsmiths.
This has been written with all the love you my heart could carry (figuratively speaking, of course, because my heart just pumps blood).
-Zethe
I have decided to change that. Like many other people on the internet, I have chosen to overlook that fact that I am not an expert (this may be a massive understatement) and decided to solicit advice on writing.
The plan is to share the lessons that I am learning with the world and hopefully learn something from anybody who elects to give my beloved blog the time of day. I hope that my words will, in some way, help people like me on their way to being full-fledged wordsmiths.
This has been written with all the love you my heart could carry (figuratively speaking, of course, because my heart just pumps blood).
-Zethe
