I Am a Writer.
I am a writer.
Sometimes that’s a good thing. Sometimes, not so much. The good thing is that I’ve never been at a loss for words… never really experienced any type of writer’s block. The downside of that is that all to often, I find myself with TOO much to say. To my friends, I am notorious for being extremely long-winded. What that translates into in my writing is that I frequently find myself bursting with ideas which leads to a ton of writing projects that never, ever get completed. Ever. Articles, I can TOTALLY do. I can knock out a 350-word article like nobody’s business, no matter the topic. I could do ten per day if I needed to – but that goes right in line with me having a CRAPLOAD of things to say and needing to get them all out. Staying on it and finishing out a BOOK?
Yeah.Right.
Right now, I have a devotion book that has been ‘finished’ about four times, but I keep adding on, taking away, and modifying the content. In addition to that ‘finished’ project, I have:
- A fictional novel
- A theology book
- A comedic parenting book
- A spiritual empowerment book
- My personal testimony
… and the problem with that is that I can’t seem to focus on ONE long enough to carry it through to the end because I have ideas for the other four at the same time, so essentially I find myself concurrently writing FIVE books. Who DOES that?! To make matters even worse, it didn’t start out as five… it started out as one, but then I had an idea for number two. Then number three. Then nu…. well, you get the point. Not only am I totally incapable of writing only ONE at a time, but I keep starting NEW ones! Because of all of this – out of sheer frustration – I tend to do the most counterproductive thing of all time… I don’t write. At all.
Now, do you see the problem?
If not, let me spell it out to you: thirty years from now, I may-or-may-not finally finish a book… and when I do, I will actually be popping out with a hundred other books at the same time. Immediately afterward, however, I will be in such shock to have finally finished SOMETHING that I will end up being committed to an asylum and lose my credibility as an author altogether LOL I’m thinking perhaps I will keep with the writing a ton of articles and then merge them all into a book eventually… *ugh* I am ready to bang my head into my keyboard have got to fix this!
I blame Twitter.
I have developed a condition I’d like to call 140itis. My thoughts come forth randomly in blasts of 140-characters or less. Uh oh. This is gonna be a long, long life.
Perhaps I will put them all together and sell one collectively massive book entitled, My Personal Testament to Fictional Accounts Spiritually Empowered by Comedic Parenting from a Theological Perspective. Sound like a plan?
I thought not.
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