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lupac's post on my Space race thread got me thinking about this but also Someone has as their sig a great quotation "the only difference between a writer and wanting to right is the width of a postage stamp"
So it got me thinking what is the 12 step program to acutally being a writer.
My contribution is #1 admitting you are writing something for "real".
I hate admitting to doing something I won't succeed at, so before my last post I'd not admitted I had such an ambition as a comprehensive Space epic alot like Kim Stanley Robinson but with like a GRR Martin Twist. (Near Future not far future if you're wondering)
So anyway what else helps someone work through the being a "writer" struggle or am I alone in my struggle against my Left Brain.
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# 3. For the first draft, gag the inner editor, tie him in chains, stuff him into an old (but watertight) foot locker, and cast him into the deepest depths of the ocean, where he shall remain until said first draft is done.
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Actually, when you mentioned a 12-step program for writers, I thought step #1 was going to say: We admitted we were powerless over our compulsion to write; that our personal lives had become unmanageable as every waking thought became obsessed with the characters talking in our heads.
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11a. If one person comments (on a character, storyline, setting, inacuracy, etc), it's an opinion. If five people comment, it's a fact.
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No, my sister (and my other sister) wouldn't like it if I started making fun of 12 step programs...and if you play it straight, the writer's 12-step would have to be oriented towards breaking our addiction to writing.
And while I'll push a lot of bounds, posting a straight line aimed at getting writers to give up writing...I'm not going to do that anywhere, least of all here.
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