"The book I have had in my mind since 20 is still there instead of on pages. I tell myself I'll write everyday but then one day turns to two then three and I'm still here not working on it. Why? Because I'm afraid of not being perfect. Of disappointing myself."Mahjabeen Syed
At ChicagoNow the bloggers fall into three large buckets. There are the main, vocal, interactive group that I'm friends with on FB who support one another. There are the ones who blog for a short time then fade away because bloggin is hard. finally there is the group of people who post semi-regularly but go about life without interaction with the rest of us. Sure, they'll reply to a comment, but they don't join our reindeer games or read our blogs etc. And that's fine.
I decided to scan all the hard copies of my draft stories from the 90s that I never finished. if nothing else it will get rid of the paper trail. I figure I can always print it again and hopefully saving it to The Cloud will be just as good as putting it in a binder on a shelf and ignoring it for another two decades.
I have to say this. It is hard to re-read all these story drafts because....they suck. I'm not being modest or fishing for encouragement or reinforcements. The writing is sophomoric at best, pedantic at worse. I was trying very hard to sound like other authors and weave a story with too many genres and influences.
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