The Online Writing Workbook
The scene’s clear in your head. The characters are running around creating drama, making their own lives difficult but yours easier with every passing word. Until you realize you don’t know the name of that brown-eyed beauty and her Prince Charming lacks an identity of his own.
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There’s still something inside of me that is excited when people ask what I do for a living and I get to tell them I’m a writer. After that declaration, the conversation goes one of two ways…
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I don’t want to be a writer anymore. Why should I bleed on paper just for some editor’s red pen to bleed all over it? My ideas aren’t that good and no one ever reads my work. No publisher’s ever going to like it. Besides, it’s giving me tendinitis. No, I’m done with writing. I’m going to find a career with a steady income and consistent job description.
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Every item has a set purpose. Sometimes that purpose is merely entertainment or wonder. Other times the purpose is intrinsic and habitual. But what happens when an item is re-purposed?
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Are you on Twitter? If you’re a writer and you’re not using the social media source, you should probably change that.
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A fellow writer tweeted that she deleted 16 pages because she didn’t like the direction her novel was headed. You could hear the sense of accomplishment in her words. My heart stopped (ok, not literally).
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Did you see them? The people in the car in front of you. The person at the table next to you.
All around you are people. Each one of those people has a story. Each one of those stories needs to be told.
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