Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 7:57:42 GMT
I don't know if I can explain myself well now. It's a sort of mental block that I've had for a long time. Maybe it was due to little reading or little writing practice or both. I could define this inhibition as the fear of making mistakes or, better yet, the fear of creating something incorrect , or rather unusual. For example, giving a story a previously unseen structure. In those moments I thought about the authors I had read and said to myself: "I haven't seen something like this, so maybe it's not customary in fiction to do this." That is, I was thinking of non-existent rules in fiction , rules that exist, but limited only to the comprehensibility of the story. Now I am convinced that it is a block resulting from lack of experience in writing , a block that has also appeared a few times in blogging, but was promptly eliminated.
The belief of not being up to par Or the sense of inadequacy . Also in this case, some readers wrote to me telling me about this problem: the love for writing, but the fear of not succeeding, of not being up to par as a writer. Who decides whether or not a person is capable of being a writer? No one, in fact many decide it: the readers . It is the readers who Special Data have always decided whether the writer can continue to write or not. In the meantime, let's write, publish our stories and the rest will be seen. This doesn't mean that you have to give up at the first failure, because even the big names have failed sometimes and even on their first attempt. The success of others In my opinion, the success of other writers should neither stimulate nor discourage us . It should be taken only as one of the possible results that one obtains by doing something.
Now, however, we talk about other people's success as an inhibition for the writer. What do I mean? Simple: if Pinco Pallino has had success publishing novels, how can I achieve it too? Answer: Pinco Pallino achieved success based on a series of characteristics of himself and his works, which are totally different from those of mine and yours. Success is not the prerogative of the chosen ones , just as it is not something that everyone can achieve. Success is just one type of outcome. The fixed patterns This type of mental writer's block is similar to the non-existent rules of fiction, but in this case they are rules, if we want to call them that, of the writer. Rules we created ourselves. My first stories - which you haven't read and won't read - were all the same, when you think about it now after over 20 years. At that time I had read little and was starting to write stories. I can't explain well why they all seem the same to me now: they were different stories, with different characters, but overall the same message was read, the same mystery was explored, the same atmosphere was felt.
The belief of not being up to par Or the sense of inadequacy . Also in this case, some readers wrote to me telling me about this problem: the love for writing, but the fear of not succeeding, of not being up to par as a writer. Who decides whether or not a person is capable of being a writer? No one, in fact many decide it: the readers . It is the readers who Special Data have always decided whether the writer can continue to write or not. In the meantime, let's write, publish our stories and the rest will be seen. This doesn't mean that you have to give up at the first failure, because even the big names have failed sometimes and even on their first attempt. The success of others In my opinion, the success of other writers should neither stimulate nor discourage us . It should be taken only as one of the possible results that one obtains by doing something.
Now, however, we talk about other people's success as an inhibition for the writer. What do I mean? Simple: if Pinco Pallino has had success publishing novels, how can I achieve it too? Answer: Pinco Pallino achieved success based on a series of characteristics of himself and his works, which are totally different from those of mine and yours. Success is not the prerogative of the chosen ones , just as it is not something that everyone can achieve. Success is just one type of outcome. The fixed patterns This type of mental writer's block is similar to the non-existent rules of fiction, but in this case they are rules, if we want to call them that, of the writer. Rules we created ourselves. My first stories - which you haven't read and won't read - were all the same, when you think about it now after over 20 years. At that time I had read little and was starting to write stories. I can't explain well why they all seem the same to me now: they were different stories, with different characters, but overall the same message was read, the same mystery was explored, the same atmosphere was felt.