Motivational *mumble* Friday Post

[dawn_felagund]

I am two days late this week! This is ridiculous. My theory that my brain works worst on Wednesdays (Wednesdays have been my least favorite day of the week since I was a little kid) is being proven by my attempts to make motivational posts on Wednesdays! My apologies, everyone.

This week's quote is in honor of muses ... or whatever that crazy, fickle force is that makes us write like unstoppable superheroes one day and then fritter away the entire uninspired day on Tumblr the next. I also liked it because this is, after all, the Season of Writing Dangerously, i.e. taking creative chances that might sometimes feel a little like madness.

"The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings."
~Plato

As always, feel free to brag, rant, plead for help, whine, celebrate, cheer each other on, and anything else related to your SoWD projects!

If you have a quote, image, video, or other idea that you think would inspire your fellow participants in one of these motivational posts, please do let me know. Also, we're coming up on the halfway point of SoWD in about two weeks, and we have something special planned for that occasion. If you like making banners and such and would like to help us out, please let me know. (If you've volunteered generally to help with SoWD, no need to volunteer again; you're on the list of people I will contact.)

Here's to a week of madly productive muses! :)

Comments

[zdenka]

I wrote and posted some Tolkien drabbles, and wrote some more of my perpetually unfinished WIP, but I've been too self-conscious to post anything towards my goals. *fail* It's fine to post bits and scraps of things in the mad rush of B2MeM, but if I post it now, 2 or 3 years later, it feels like it actually has to be good. Argh, I just want to get this pile of ficlets off my hard drive so I can stop worrying about them.

[dawn_felagund]

If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. I'm happy to put an eye on things, which is almost never as bad as you think it is. ;)

Good luck! *hugs*

[zdenka]

Thank you for the words of encouragement; I really needed that. I'll keep the offer in mind.

[ysilme]

I wish I could offer some help, but I just can sympathise with the feeling of being blocked by one's own perfectionism, it happened to me in my previous fandom. My solution - starting anew in a new fandom - istn't what I would recommend, ;o) but ist certainly helped getting my muse back. That menacing folder simply stopped to be important... and I've even stopped feeling bad about it.
Could you not just post them as a "WIP" collection to literally get them off your hard drive, and let your muse decide when she wants to deal with them? Or give them to somebody else for safekeeping with the request to give you one back at odd times to be worked at?

[zdenka]

Thanks for the sympathy. :)

Fortunately I'm not completely blocked on writing new things (knocks wood), I just have hang-ups about finishing the old ones. Hopefully I can get them posted bit by bit, even if it goes very slowly.