(March 25, 2014 at 2:12 am)psychoslice Wrote:(March 25, 2014 at 2:09 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: I'm not a housewife, but I write books because I enjoy it. If I think something I write is marketable, I'll probably try to go for it. Every writers' group I've been affiliated with has enjoyed my writing, so why not try?
That's great, I have a little group of people who likes my book also, its so rewarding isn't it ?.
It is! There are so many rewards that come from writing. Of course, there's heartache too.
Here's a conundrum illustrating this: Recently, I started a rewrite of a popular novel written a couple of decades ago. I was having so much fun writing it until I saw a movie that did about 90% of my ideas. They didn't relate the movie to the novel in question, but it was SO similar to what my ideas were, and to the original novel, it was obvious the filmmakers' end goal was the same as mine. I decided to chuck my rewrite.
I was bummed. The excitement deflated, and I completely stopped writing for a few days. I have been working on at least three novels/novellas at a time since I can remember, and I just wasn't writing.
... but then I thought, why not let the original work and its tribute be muses for writing exercises? Shouldn't all writers be exercising and practicing outside of their art like professional athletes and musicians? And, while it's in an entirely different genre from the other two projects that I'm working on, this process is lending a depth to my characters, which I don't think I had before my current attitude about it.
The reward is definitely worth the angst that comes with it
