Comments on: The Timeless Writing Struggle: Ego vs. Humility https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:58:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mike Byrnes https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-149493 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 01:58:10 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-149493 Sorry I'm late. I got lost and just found my way. I hope you don't mind a usually prompt guy showing up late without an invitation. But since there's no expiration date on the internet, here I am.
I've read each sincere post and kind response and would like to join the conversation. I'm a rank beginner who could learn a lot by just observing. And there's a chance I might contribute something useful from time to time.

Thanks.

Mike

]]> By: Writing Goal for 2021: Let Go to Love More – Live News 2 Go Writing https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-147575 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:08:40 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-147575 […] Last year—2020—was my year of memoir purging. […]

]]> By: Writing Goal for 2021: Let Go to Love More | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-147481 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:37:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-147481 […] Last year—2020—was my year of memoir purging. […]

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146761 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:57:18 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146761 In reply to Karen DeBonis.

To each her own.

Don't let anyone tell you there is only one way to write.

Over the years, I have kept a lot of the good stuff I've read that works for me - and slowly backed away from a hundred times more advice that didn't. I'm stubborn as a rock. I think that's good.

]]> By: Karen DeBonis https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146760 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:55:34 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146760 In reply to judy lawless.

I'm glad I prodded you, Judy! I think you have to cut yourself a break during COVID, but then why not seek out another critique group? It's been one of the best things I've done for my writing.

]]> By: Karen DeBonis https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146759 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:50:43 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146759 In reply to wendyleslie.

Sounds like we've taken a similar path, Wendy. May our growth continue!

]]> By: Karen DeBonis https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146758 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:48:03 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146758 In reply to Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt.

Alicia, apologies for the delay in replying. (I had a family emergency.) I'm glad you shared your methodology of writing final drafts of scenes and not going back. Just goes to show that everyone has to do what works for them. Congrats to you as well. What a model of persistence you are!

]]> By: judy lawless https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146704 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:12:42 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146704 Hi Karen. This is another inspiring post, which I needed. Since COVID I have struggled to write anything but my blog posts about local travel, and struggles with keeping sane. I often think about my memoirs, but know that I have too many ideas and can't possibly put all the different stages of my life into one book. So I started to break them down. But then I think I'm too old. I don't have time to finish anyway, and who would want to read it anyway?

I belonged to an online site many years ago where the option was to submit and critique for other writers, or just critique. I submitted the first chapter of what I'd written and got some positive feedback. But then I let it go. When I found those notes and positive comments I was encouraged again. But I seem to need constant prodding.

You've got me thinking about it again. Thanks!

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146688 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:04:52 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146688 In reply to Karen DeBonis.

We'd never start if we knew how much work it is to make what's on the page agree with what's in your head! Congrats on writing the memoir, and on your learning attitude.

This is going to sound weird: I don't want the second one to be better; I want it to be of a piece.

A lot has happened since 2015, including a major cross-country downsizing everything move, and the one thing I begged my beta reader to tell me was whether she could see a before and after, seams, a change - she said no, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Other people write - and revise - whole manuscripts. I write one planned scene after another, completely finishing and polishing as I go, and rarely go back.

This trilogy is as planned as I can make the structure, as free as I can make the writing - and I don't want to change ANYTHING until the third book is published.

Then maybe some readers won't know it took 25 years total.
🙂

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/10/the-timeless-writing-struggle-ego-vs-humility/#comment-146687 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:56:01 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41056#comment-146687 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Thank you, Jenny!

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