As an author, I am third. I am not a clone with two other me's, and I am not a baseball player on third base, instead I am a re-writer and 3 is my number. Even writing blog posts, I write out my thoughts, ideas, my personality in (what I imagine to be) a great post. Then I gasp, "Did I write that?!" at the typos and incorrect sentence structure. I furiously rewrite, edit, and fix the mistakes. Am I done? No. Never. For me, as an author, there is always a third. I imagine I'll grow out of this 'stage', but I don't. Acceptance is my only defense.
"I am a third. I am a third," is a mantra that keeps my second time anxiety gasp to a low-level lately. If you are a writer, I hope I've helped you, because some great 'bones' are thrown out by perfectionists who haven't allowed themselves the second glance without crying. Can't say I've never cried, but especially blogging and tweeting where every typo is immediately exposed to the world (although, according to the comments, here, I can't say, well really anyone but Sonic, has seen my mistakes) I've become accustomed to my second glance freak-out. Now, at best it makes me reach for the gummie bears, and at its worst it makes me anxious enough to typo in the third writing, but I almost never throw the 'cr*p' across the room.
What does this have to do with Writer's Camp and a New Novel in July? Everything! NaNoWriMo's Write-a-Novel-in-One-Month campaign in what's been fashioned into Summer Camp for writers, online, now includes the category Pre-Writing. I am ecstatic! Because I am one of those NaNoWriMo losers who actually finished, in time, an entire novel in one month but had to rewrite this, "O gads, and then that!" until the midnight deadline was actually missed by an author (me) who had finished a week early. That's the hare, folks, from tortise and the hare? But I wasn't sipping a drink by the pool with a little umbrella perched against the rim of the glass, I was agonizing over typos, punctuation, stupidity, and rewriting sections as fast as I could. This year, I'll pre-write and get myself some new writing done on a novel I've been putting off for a long, long, long time. Join us at camp - there's a camp for young writers - or comment, here, to keep Sonic company.
I'll be posting Portland locations where I'll be writing at least once a week in July. Join me if you see me around. Here's the link!
"I am a third. I am a third," is a mantra that keeps my second time anxiety gasp to a low-level lately. If you are a writer, I hope I've helped you, because some great 'bones' are thrown out by perfectionists who haven't allowed themselves the second glance without crying. Can't say I've never cried, but especially blogging and tweeting where every typo is immediately exposed to the world (although, according to the comments, here, I can't say, well really anyone but Sonic, has seen my mistakes) I've become accustomed to my second glance freak-out. Now, at best it makes me reach for the gummie bears, and at its worst it makes me anxious enough to typo in the third writing, but I almost never throw the 'cr*p' across the room.
What does this have to do with Writer's Camp and a New Novel in July? Everything! NaNoWriMo's Write-a-Novel-in-One-Month campaign in what's been fashioned into Summer Camp for writers, online, now includes the category Pre-Writing. I am ecstatic! Because I am one of those NaNoWriMo losers who actually finished, in time, an entire novel in one month but had to rewrite this, "O gads, and then that!" until the midnight deadline was actually missed by an author (me) who had finished a week early. That's the hare, folks, from tortise and the hare? But I wasn't sipping a drink by the pool with a little umbrella perched against the rim of the glass, I was agonizing over typos, punctuation, stupidity, and rewriting sections as fast as I could. This year, I'll pre-write and get myself some new writing done on a novel I've been putting off for a long, long, long time. Join us at camp - there's a camp for young writers - or comment, here, to keep Sonic company.
I'll be posting Portland locations where I'll be writing at least once a week in July. Join me if you see me around. Here's the link!
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