Natalia TheodoridouNov 22, 2022

Seeing everyone circulating what they wrote and what they loved this year (myself included), I can't help but think of everyone who, by choice, circumstance, or disposition, didn't write (and/or publish) as much as they wished they had. Or at all.

So, for you, and me, and everyone: "Even if you're not actively writing [...], you are still a writer, because of the way you regard the world - with curiosity and interest and some sort of love." (George Saunders)

Show threadJames Baillie
@nassos Yeah, this has not been a fertile year for my creative writing (and I'm going to have failed to hit my really big non-creative writing goal too, which I hugely wanted to do and am feeling a bit sore about... I'll get there in the first quarter of 2023 short of any new massive problems, but it would've been nice to reach the mark I'd set myself).
Nov 22, 2022 at 10:59amWeb
Show threadNatalia TheodoridouNov 22, 2022
@JubalBarca Yeah I hear you. For me, as long as there is *some* forward movement, I try not to be too hard on myself. (Doesn't always work, of course!) And also... I think of all the try-fail cycles and the prep and the thinking and the fretting as part of the process. As in, I couldn't get to the writing without it.
Show threadJames BaillieNov 22, 2022

@nassos Yeah - the second half of this year for me has been rather dominated by health problems which I couldn't really help. Not that it reduces the frustrations!

I should count up what I have written in 2022 sometime I guess. It's often more than I remember when I include occasional songs/poems etc, though I keep leaving those unfinished lately.