As with everything in life, we must constantly prioritize and make room for the things we would otherwise push to the wayside. In general, this is what happens to all of us, yet when faced with completing a passion project (such as completing the best novel we can write), shoving it to the wayside can not only undermine confidence, but it certainly will take you out of your imagined world; a crucial head-space for any fiction writer to live in on a daily basis: To breathe it, taste it, smell it, and pace it with the soles of our own two feet, as not to lose our proverbial finger on its pulse. Not that every minute should be dedicated to "living it;" it's just that in a larger sense the story's milieu should enshroud us writers, haunt us with its terror, joy, suspense, foreboding, tranquility, romance-- whatever! That fantastic place must remain fantastic, otherwise we're just trudging along, making ends meet (even if that means continuing on the wrong journey), knowing that we're not doing what we know we do best. And that's a drag!
It is important to re-cognize things every so often, and this topic is one that should be recognized by all writers, as anyone can write themselves into a circle, but not everyone can muster the diligence and tenacity to write themselves out of it.
It is important to re-cognize things every so often, and this topic is one that should be recognized by all writers, as anyone can write themselves into a circle, but not everyone can muster the diligence and tenacity to write themselves out of it.
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