Update On Doubt
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."--William Shakespeare, "Measure For Measure".
It has been a while since I've updated and I should be sleeping or editing. I have been working on my novels on and off throughout the summer. This does seem to be the summer of the rings since at least three couples I know have married and at least four couples are engaged. I have officially become the only friend that I know that remains single--with the possible exception of one other friend--but I have more important things to work on since my vacation will soon come to an end.
I have been skipping around on writing novels. I am three-fourths of the way done with Astral Imagination and have started a biblical epic and a sci-fi series. For a strange reason, I have been more interested in editing the first book I finished when I was younger. I am on Chapter Ten of the book, yet I have no idea why I feel so comfortable editing this work over all of my other pieces.
Doubt has been the main reason why I have not published anything as of yet. Every single time I read over a piece of work I will think to myself that there is no way this could be good and I begin editing the work. I will avoid looking at it for a few days and when I return to the work I will find something else wrong with it and continue to edit some more. I think what I will do is finish editing my first book and then publish it in order to create motivation.
The reason I read over the work is because I do not have an editor. One important piece of advice for beginning writers is to find someone who will read your material in order to gain an objective view of your writing, but these individuals are hard to find. Therefore, I plan on following advice that is normally followed in rare occasions such as entering a swimming pool. You can either slowly get used to the water and hopefully manage to have limited fun with buddies, or you can jump in knowing that the shocking impact of the cold is coming and adjust to the aftershock. I need to jump into the self-publishing game and take the positives and negatives so I can figure out whether or not I should get over my doubt and publish more writings or find a new hobby.
It has been a while since I've updated and I should be sleeping or editing. I have been working on my novels on and off throughout the summer. This does seem to be the summer of the rings since at least three couples I know have married and at least four couples are engaged. I have officially become the only friend that I know that remains single--with the possible exception of one other friend--but I have more important things to work on since my vacation will soon come to an end.
I have been skipping around on writing novels. I am three-fourths of the way done with Astral Imagination and have started a biblical epic and a sci-fi series. For a strange reason, I have been more interested in editing the first book I finished when I was younger. I am on Chapter Ten of the book, yet I have no idea why I feel so comfortable editing this work over all of my other pieces.
Doubt has been the main reason why I have not published anything as of yet. Every single time I read over a piece of work I will think to myself that there is no way this could be good and I begin editing the work. I will avoid looking at it for a few days and when I return to the work I will find something else wrong with it and continue to edit some more. I think what I will do is finish editing my first book and then publish it in order to create motivation.
The reason I read over the work is because I do not have an editor. One important piece of advice for beginning writers is to find someone who will read your material in order to gain an objective view of your writing, but these individuals are hard to find. Therefore, I plan on following advice that is normally followed in rare occasions such as entering a swimming pool. You can either slowly get used to the water and hopefully manage to have limited fun with buddies, or you can jump in knowing that the shocking impact of the cold is coming and adjust to the aftershock. I need to jump into the self-publishing game and take the positives and negatives so I can figure out whether or not I should get over my doubt and publish more writings or find a new hobby.
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