IWSG May, 2019
Sometimes, I feel smug about my desire to create fiction because I recognize not everyone feels this way or does it.
This post was written for
The Insecure
Writer's Support Group monthly blogging event and
brought to you by founder and writer Alex J Cavanaugh. This
month Alex has the help of these co-hosts: Yvonne
Ventresca , T.
Powell Coltrin , Juneta Key, and Lee
Lowery
I'm not using the question this month, but this is the optional question for May: What was an
early experience where you learned that language had power?
I write stories and feel a little
smug about it. No, I am not delusional in thinking I'm an excellent writer. It's just that I've got the drive to write and not everyone feels this way. Hey, you’ve
gotta feel special where you can! (Hence--insecure writer.)
Maybe smug is too strong
of a word, but I do feel sort of special because I am a storyteller obsessed with writing.
Even though you can't touch it, and please don't try, I hold a wellspring of
ideas in my brain that I can turn into characters and words in no time. My ideas connect to an intrinsic desire to turn words into sentences that might evoke emotion in myself and others. Some of you might understand what I'm talking about. If
you exercise your craft, talent or passion, then I give you permission to
feel a little smug too. You deserve it because being a "creative" person is exhausting.
I also feel smug because I've been included this
month as a cohost for the IWSG blog hop! Be sure to visit my fellow
cohosts linked above. Also, check out the new IWSG anthology contest theme
at the Insecure
Writer's Support Group website.
T.
Comments
Yvonne.
So go ahead and own it.
Thank you for co-hosting the IWSG this month, Teresa.
As a person with rapid cycling type 2 bipolar disorder, there are times when I don't give a rip if anyone else understands my worlds, because my worlds are fantastic and fabulous.
At other times I feel like I should give up writing entirely because nobody understands me at all.
If my brain is a box of chocolates, some of them are the high end stuff which makes one wonder if they'd died and gone to heaven when they eat it, some of them are just serviceable chocolate for when you need a piece of chocolate, and some of them are the freaking Springbolt Surprise.
Thanks for co-hosting today!
It is A-okay to feel smug about being a writer. If you don't feel that way, why write. For me your smugness is called affirmation. Affirming who you are and being proud and thankful of it.
Thanks for co-hosting today.
Shalom aleichem,
Pat G @ EverythingMustChange
Anna from elements of emaginette
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
Thank you for cohosting this month!
While I'm not a fiction writer, I think I know what you mean as I am always writing, usually on a device - experiences, books, articles, translations, emails, diaries, blogs, blog comments, ... - and when not doing that, I "write" in my head. So many ideas - uncountable - about stories, books, articles, and blogs. It never stops! It's so bad that my husband says his biggest punishment would be to "be in my head". :-)
Balancing Act
Thanks for co-hosting!