When writing is a craft. Vivace con brio
If you write out of passion rather than a profession where things start to get complicated. It is at this point that the change of perspective that I have proposed pays off. Put to the test as well: stand up! And you take away the hindrances in more than one occasion. I could write a whole post about it, but the best strategy is the same: try .
not be discouraged if the first few times she did not succeed well, part of the game. First we need to train a bit ': how and when it is at your discretion.
From theory to practice. Think
having to write an article. The simplest case (but also less frequent, alas) is that you have a large degree of freedom and autonomy in deciding, for example, the topic. Suppose you have your own address book (on a website, a blog in case you are a professional blogger, a magazine, a local newspaper or newspaper of the parish). In this case the element of "required" to be followed will be the general topic of the book, for example Your garden , Pet therapy , low cost decorating and so on. The themes of the various articles may instead be decided by you from time to time, or agreed with a senior editor. In any case, even with all the variations, you're still self-sufficient. And if the book you have chosen you because it is a topic that you are passionate ... welcome to paradise!
fact remains that the piece you need write and deliver (or publish), because you have a contract and deadlines. And to those who pay or who will not read a damn if the dog has just peed on the carpet, my aunt can not go get the child to school, the car to a mechanic, it pours out and have just closed the nth receiver in the face of the call center receptionist on duty who wanted to sell you a delicious wine in cans of 10 liters! That piece you the you write. And fast.
Generally, however, things are not quite so idyllic: often the subject you have not chosen you, might even be an issue that you do not know anything and therefore will take time to read up on duty, you have a minimum and maximum of characters (and believe me that talking about transcendental meditation in just 800 characters is an equal to climb Everest), the deadline is always urgent, but you communicate it in the morning to the evening, you must be attractive but not urgent, but authoritative not boring, but not precise pedantic, but without much original creativity, SEO compliant if you work for the web and, of course, remind sensible things to say. Not to mention that you may be forced to work in an open space with 10 other people, phones ringing, people coming in and going out, music ...
And the inspiration? Last door on the right.
Unless ... If you can turn a disadvantage into an advantage, if you turn the tables and write "despite ..." because it is from that "despite" that can put you in the right wavelength, then you have won the challenge, because you will loose from the constraints, you will become an act that depends on an outside that is completely up to you. You will be free.
And the "holy fire" is lit once again, illuminating what you do and what you are.
POSTSCRIPT (for once I give myself the luxury of writing in one piece:))
I neglected to talk about the "writers" as the people who write books. I do not belong to the category and not having experienced first hand the job back only thinking of others. Better than what they have to say I'll say for themselves without my mediation (though, if you're interested, you can find some excerpts from that taught me a lot in Ipse dixit and Reading here and there).
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