Venting-Good for the Soul

Venting. I can do that on a blog, right? I mean, that's what they're for! Millions of people across the globe can rant and rave to their heart's content to a worldwide audience. Although, my kind of complaining is never in the "The world is unfair!" category. I complain because my stories don't work. It's ANNOYING. One of the horrible things about being a professional writer is that you know exactly how badly your stories are written. And you can think of a hundred things that are written better than yours. When you think like that, plunking out page one of a new story is pure torture. But then, you get past the first page, and then you sort of remember that writing can be fun, and it's not so bad anymore. But getting past the hump of the first few pages is why so many people do NOT become writers. You have to decide not to care how bad it is, and that takes GUTS. That proverbial hump is the enemy of all writing. Get past that, and when you take your stuff to writing group you find out, 'Hey! My stuff isn't as bad as I thought!" because you hear stories that have just as many problems as yours and you feel a whole lot better about yourself.