My expectations for #IWSG
This comes a few days late, but I’m here at last! I am happy to join in for the first time. The enormous talent in this group humbles me and hope I can learn many things along the way.
I am not a novelist, but I do love to write. This the one joy that stays with me when other interests fade. Years ago, I wrote a few of children’s stories. After failed attempts to get my favorite into print the traditional route, I decided to self-publish with no regrets whatsoever. It was a fun experience, but I realized that I don’t have what it takes to write as a career or do I?
I know I need to shake things up in my journeying, if I want to grow as a serious writer. That being said… *swallow hard* I realize I among published authors (please be kind to me), but I hope The Insecure Writer’s Support Group monthly exercise will help me in three areas.
- stretch my lax imagination and unleash those pinned ideas in my mind
- fine tune my limited writing ability
- build confidence and energy as a writer
If nothing more becomes of this experience other than allowing me to continue on the amazing highway of blogging as a better writer and meet new friends, then I am okay with this, but if I should go beyond that…then that would be cool.
The gloves are off, I’m ready to write!
3 Comments
Bernadyn
Love this post! I love writing, too, and have come to realize that writing for a profession is harder work than I thought. I still would like to write a novel one day but as I continue on that journey, I try to write everyday in different forms. Congrats for self-publishing, I’m still working on that 🙂
The Real Cie
I also gave up the “professional writer” dream. I found that pursuing that path made me not enjoy writing, so I stopped doing it. This was not easy for me, as it had been a longtime dream.
I’ve given up on a lot of expectations, both with writing and blogging. People tend to not become friends with me both in “bloggy life” and real life. Perhaps the fact that I have mental illness scares them–yay stigma! Perhaps my writing actually sucks. Who knows?
I’m visiting both from the A to Z road trip and the Insecure Writer’s group list. My personal blog is at The Cheese Whines.
artmusedog
Great post ~ love your header photo and the boxing glove photo ~ just write ~ I journal every day which seems to help and write haiku ~ Happy Weekend to you ~ xoxo