Hello, friends! Welcome to this month’s meeting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, a blog hop created by Alex J. Cavanaugh and cohosted this month by Joylene Nowell Butler, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Meka James, Victoria Marie Lees, and M Louise Barbour. To learn more about this amazingly supportive group and to see a list of participating blogs, click here.
I’m sorry, I’m feeling a little burned out after the A to Z Challenge, and I don’t have much to say for this month’s IWSG posting. Fortunately, my muse has offered to write this blog post for me. She has something to say, and maybe it’s something your muse would like to hear.
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My writer loves writing, but he also hates it sometimes. He doesn’t like to admit that, which is probably why he lets me talk about this on his behalf. There are days when writing is fast and easy and fun, but there are also days when writing gets slow, tedious, and frustrating.
My writer just finished the A to Z Challenge. Overall, he enjoyed the experience, but there were a few days when things got frustrating, especially toward the end of the challenge. Frustrating enough that he wanted to give up, not just on the challenge itself but on blogging and writing in general. Don’t worry, he’s okay now. Every writer struggles sometimes with these “I want to give up” feelings.
Writing can’t always be fun. It can’t always be easy. Our job, as muses, is to be there for our writers both on the fun days and the days of frustration. Those frustrating days are always a temporary problem, but if your writer can get through the frustrating parts, the joy and the pleasure of writing will return.