Living the Fictional Dream

I managed to power through my writer’s block and finish one of the short stories I was working on. I got it to the anthology that inspired it the day before the final deadline, so yay! Now I just have one more short story to finish for a pending anthology; then, I can wait until the responses roll in.

So, speaking of writer’s block, I stumbled across a link to an article on the subject. The article uses famous authors, such as Ralph Ellison, as examples and discusses if they had writer’s block or if they were procrastinators.

The bit about perfectionism especially hit home. It is hard to get stuff finished when you want it to be so precisely perfect. I get that way with my novels-in-progress all the time. Probably why the revisions drag on and on (that and lack of time). It’s easier to finish a piece of flash or a short story because of the limited word count. Of course, you can always revise, but the shorter length allows you to get to something you’re happy enough with to submit sooner.

And that’s my thought on writing for the day. Now it’s time to head out to dinner and for a movie!