
Everything I’ve written for the last couple of weeks is terrible. Whatever I picked up to read bored me and I’ve talked about it on social media.
Now, I try not to do this, but last week my brain told me off through a dream.
All the writers I interact with had an intervention. One said, “We’ve been watching you for a couple of years. I don’t know where you fell off, but you need to stop complaining and work.”
Needless to say, I thought of this dream for a couple of days. It resided in every waking moment. When I thought I got away from it, there it was, reeling me back in.
The funny thing is, I thought everything was fine. I didn’t see it. My subconscious did. It yelled at me in the dream, “You’ve been doing so good. You need to stop this complaining and work.”
Now, this is not a complaint to follow up on by the subconscious. It’s more of a story that I need to listen to that voice in my head that says to work.
I have a book out in a month, and I will promote the hell out of it for the next month and thereafter. What I will not do is complain about how hard this shit sometimes is. How hard I’m working. I want everyone to read Disunion By Force. I wrote it for me, so maybe it won’t reach the people I want it to, but I know someone will enjoy it.
They say you should write what you’d read and this is what my fourteen-year-old self would have read. It’s a book I think my biological father would like.
Gotta admit, I complain more times than not. And it’s easy to complain as a writer, because you put in so much work before even seeing a modicum of results. Regardless, I like your goal to complain less, and here’s to your book doing well!
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Authors are often their own worst critics, and that can get in the way of writing. Good on your subconscious for reminding you of that and urging you to work.
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