Andre Hartslief
Writing is a lot like a relationship. There are great highs, terrible lows, as well as wonderful moments when the relationship between the writer and their writing just clicks. However, sometimes there are also symptoms of blind love. This occurs when a writer just fails to recognize when their writing is flawed and still needs some work. Alternately, there’s the over-controlling writer who just won’t leave their writing alone and will over-edit their work.
Have a great relationship with your writing by finding balance: Know when you need to put time into your relationship with your written piece and learn to let it go.
Whatever your relationship with your writing, remember:
It’s okay to love your writing. Just don’t looove your writing.
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i write to get things out of my head. What kind of writer would that be?
I believe all writers write to get things out of their heads! I’m sure you, more than any other person will know just how much you like your own writing, is it normal, or is it an obsession?
I can’t tell you that Doc, only you can answer that one.
i guess i like my writing enough to defend it at times, but not enough to declare myself worthy of writing awards!
I like your answer, Doc, and I feel much the same about my own stuff. Thanks for commenting.
happy to comment- always fun to talk about the writing reality
Yeah, right. I think the key here is to make writing more fun, playful, and entertaining. Some thing you would like to read yourself. That, if you can’t find it anywhere else, write it yourself.
Sometimes, it’s hard to do. But without trying hard, write as if it’s the natural thing to do— making your readers to stick around long enough to make an emotional investment.
Try to avoid the grammatical bog of trying to ‘please’.
I agree with what you shared here. Writing should be all of what you say. 😉
I have learned to make sure to hand in a writing assignment ready to go by checking with Grammarly and Copyscape. There is now so much material online that the only way you can write as if you are the only one writing about a certain subject is to embrace the topic you have to write on and truly make it your own. For that reason, I also save all I write in folders because there are many times I can use the old articles to get fresh ideas.
That’s an incredible idea, Sandra, as long as it works for you, that’s great.