After dumping some of the excess pain I've been feeling on you last week, (if I'm not happy, why should you be) it's been difficult for me to put together another entry for my blog. The problem has not been a lack of ideas or inspiration. I'm just being lazy.
I have several dozen stories, short and long, that I've started over the last year, but only a few are finished. As a writer, my biggest problem is that I'm a binge writer. When inspiration comes, I have to spend a few days mulling it over in my mind and working myself up into a frenzy. When I do sit down to write, I'll spend 6 to 10 hours straight writing and if I don't finish at least the first draft then, I probably never will. This has to change, if I every want to seriously write. The issue is a lack of discipline.
My current favorite means of distraction, from writing or much of anything else, is reading. As a teenager, I used to immerse myself into a story, shutting out the rest of the world. Recently, I've started doing this again. Living vicariously through the characters.
If I want to do this, I need to develop (learn) the discipline to set down and write one or two thousand words a day. I'll try to put up an occasional update on my progress. Maybe I can guilt-trip myself into showing a little more discipline. (One of the reasons I started this blog is so I would at lease write a few paragraphs of something everyday.)
I've found a great tool to help me with this, Write or Die. It's a great tool for writer's that forces you to focus on just writing. You can give it goals for a writing session, it keeps tabs on the word count and time and gives you warnings when you're not keeping up. Anyway, this evening I wrote 697 words on a story in one hour and another 325 words writing this blog post.
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