I was born to write. I love every minute I create something,the ideas flow through me like water. The only problem is that the world gets in the way. I have a family to contribute to,mortgage to pay etc so instead of writing what I want to I am stuck writing Training Material. I suppose it is better than being a assistant private banker which was my previous employment. I refuse to give up and every minute I get a write a bit. I have a screenplay that is registered with WGA but it is only a third draft and I need to rework it. I have a second one half complete. Both are supernatural thrillers. Or one might call them fantasy adventures. I am working on the novel for the completed screenplay. And a second one as a ebook. Each day I work on a different item. Lately I am concentrating on the ebook as it is easier to be published and better to concentrate on one project at a time. So network with me ,and lets all help grow one another in this industry.
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The "real world" does get in the way, doesn't it? I have remarked that I would love to work as a professional writer, but I think that before I can do that, I would need to . . . oh I don't know . . . actually get paid for writing! But I think you have the right idea: make the time to write every day, even if it's a just a little. Be patient and stick with a project (until you are finished or need to take a break from it).
When I first started out (eons ago -- before the Internet!) to break into professional writing, I would devour stories about others who did it -- where you saw how they adjusted their day, even for an hour, to write. I still read these stories. Because we need to see that others have mapped the way -- that we are following their same footsteps. Today it is so much better. There are more platforms and opportunities to create outside of the traditional industry box. But don't look at it as life getting in the way as much as -- you're not ready yet to step into the new role. There is an experience the universe has yet to send you, and that may be the "life card," where it is testing your muster and ability to persevere and really go after what you want.
Agree totally , it is just I am over 40 now so I fear I will run out of time coping with the immediate parts of survival that I never get to fully realise my dream. Everytime I pick up something I wrote years ago I am amazed at what a good writer I am. Not being vain, what I mean is like the other day I found a short story I wrote ten years ago, it was not in my belongings but in a friends and I read it but I never recognised it. I went to her and said,this is great who wrote it. She looked at me as if I was a retard, and said:"You did". And thats when I realised a gift I was given is slowly going to waste.
Welcome Marilyn :) good luck on your projects!
And Gary often you watch a movie and wonder why that was made when your screenplay is 100 times more action and story. I refuse to give up,someone one day will like my stories.
Hey Lyse, I was enjoying things till I was told the writing learning materials is ending in May, the person I wrote for is not continuing as the material needs to be aligned with govening body requirements and these seem to change as often as underwear so it is becoming less viable to develop the material. That leaves me a penniless writer with a mortgage. So now I am sending cv like 50 per day for employment back into the corporate world. I see my writing dreams floating away...The job market is more than scarce as I am also penilised on my race. So alot of jobs the advert tells you straight what races will be given preference. So I have also been exploring free lance writing sites, I could maybe do Ghost writing for payment. I have been doing copywriting online for 2 years for extra money. Well this is the life we are given and even in my job searches I refuse to give up, I think it is also training me to take rejection...like 50 times a day.
So true. But I am still trying the lotto!lol
It is so hard to write when life gets in the way. Whether you work or are a full time mom it leaves little time, and time is what a writer needs most. I agree we should all help each other.
My writing actually has helped me deal with the rest of my life. I look at it as therapy, and it gives me hope that everything in life happens for a reason. i like the idea of starting with a logline, so create a logline from your everyday life, and turn it into your writing. I probably shouldn't be giving anyone advice, seeing as I just started writing after letting life get in the way for fifty years.
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Advice is something even a child can give, my son sometimes gives great advice, it is seeing things differently. Even a new writer may have great advice, so thank you.
Thanks Lyse
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Discipline - when I was working jobs I didn't enjoy, it was the anger, jealousy and rage that fueled my writing late at night or early in the AM - when I sold my first script, I hoped the anger would go away, it didn't, although now I have to read bad reviews of my work sometimes to get steam up, lol.
I have a three year old so right now my world is chaotic but as soon as he calms I can get into a proper disciplined routine. Discipline is really a key to getting alot done.
True Taylor, I thought my chance would come when my son reached 9 and started to become maturer, then I fell pregnant, now I have a wild toddler running around. We suspect Autism but we are getting him assessed. If you get time you normally so exhausted to even write. I am training myself to live on four to five hours sleep so I can have some time to write.