Archive for January, 2008
Personality Styles & Writing Habits
Slow and steady wins the race.
Or something like that. Frustrated writers everywhere are often admonished with phrases like the above. I find them annoying. No, scratch that. Sometimes I find them infuriating. Why? Because I’ve tried it and I swear, it’s not that easy and sometimes it just plain doesn’t work.
The longest I’ve written every single day was for a month, and that’s when I’ve participated in NaNo. Outside of NaNo, the longest I can manage to write every single day is two weeks.
Why, you might ask, would I admit to such a personal weakness? Because as writers creative people we often punish ourselves. “I’m just terrible at self discipline,” We might say. We feel guilty. We then attempt to commit ourselves to vague and counterproductive goals like “…being better and more self-disciplined.”
I’m going to be blunt here. It’s all a crock of poo. Not because I think self discipline is a poor virtue. In fact I think it’s a great virtue… for those that can regularly pull it off.
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