I'm retired after a moderately successful magazine writing and editing career -- freelanced for 40 publications. I've started into speculative work that I didn't risk earlier while raising my kids. It's a good start, with lots of notes for a dozen fictions, either novels or screenplays.
But for a couple of years I've mostly procrastinated, averaging just an hour a day on real writing work. It's a lifelong pattern: giving days to friends or family, home chores or email, or "noble" community work like Amnesty International, then lazing away my evenings with tv movies.
Maybe the sheer amount of work is daunting me. It could be some underlying fear, since I've never published fiction. Or maybe it's poor discipline, poor work habits that stem from not having deadlines. Whatever's holding me back, I'm tired of it.
What do you recommend, doctor?
2007-03-25
06:44:58
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will_o_the_west
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