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Writer’s Guilt

October 13, 2009Rants100, article, blog, blogger, blogging, book, books, career, citizen, clean, comment, content, creative person, creative writing, day, disappointment, distraction, energy, ethereal, everything, experience, fiction, Google, gui, high school, homework, html, ideas, ig, material, psychological, search, self, stories, stuff, system, target, voice, war of art, words, Worthless, writersBenjamin M. Strozykowski

Gah!!

Every creative person before me has identified and dealt with a little issue that I’m going to call Writer’s Guilt. Writers Guilt occurs in two distinct–yet definitely intertwined–forms.

It occurs to me that everyone with a creative pursuit must go through this ordeal and come away making a choice in either direction. I have yet to make that choice, and end up doing 50% on both sides of the coin, rather than picking one and going full force.

What can I do about this? Let’s first identify the two sides of the story, then we’ll do a little research to find out what ways other writers suggest to get past this social and personal road block.

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Creativity Blockage

June 30, 2009Rantsabout, art, blog, brain, comment, comments, concepts, conference, creative person, creativity, day, distraction, elementary, ethereal, extension, father, fear, finishing, future, habits, help, husband, ideas, intellect, Intellectual, ip, issues, material, me, message, missions, novel, novels, parent, parents, post, procrastination, product, Productivity, psychological, question, quote, ratings, read, school, stuff, style, task, tasks, thoughts, twitter, universe, video, wiki, words, work, world, writer's block, WritingBenjamin M. Strozykowski

I haven’t made much time recently to sit down and write. Between summer class AppIndie 2.0 work and family stuff, I haven’t exactly been a maven of productivity.

Just as I haven’t been writing any blog posts (the last one was when?), I haven’t been working much on my novels, or any of the other creative pursuits that I’ve come to enjoy. Though I make an effort to show up for my writing time, but nothing seems to come out when I sit down.

Writer’s block is probably nothing to stress about, but just the same, it feels me with that bit of anxiety that seems to permeate through the rest of my life.

While some of my friends and colleagues seem to be moving forward with their work and creative pursuits, I seem to be just stuck in the mud.
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Worthless Genius Stats

February 10, 2009Rants60 days, 60 posts, adsense, akismet, blog, blogger, bloggers, blogging, coding, Comic, comment, comments, content, future, ideas, import, initiative, large, novel, novels, page, plugins, post, read, site, spam, stroz.net, style, switch, target, the future, wordpress, words, work, worthless geniusBenjamin M. Strozykowski

As a bit of an aside, today I’d like to talk about some stats that I’m pooling here on the site. The stats are going to be for posts created on the old Stroz.net blog, but not including SPAM or page hits while it was running there. If you care, you can keep reading. Continue reading →

The Challenge of Rewriting

January 1, 2009New Year's Challengeblood, career, challenge, chapter 1, chapters, dime, dimenxia, focus, mistakes, nightmare, overneath, read, rewriting, stories, story, style, thoughts, wife, words, workBenjamin M. Strozykowski

On the fourth day of the New Year’s 30 Day Challenge, I’ve decided to take a look at the first chapter of my novel, Dimenxia, which I wrote 4 years ago. I’ve never had to do a substantial rewrite of a piece of literature before, and I decided to share my ideas to potentially help out other authors going through the process.

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Bleh

October 3, 2008Rantsbleh, blog, blogging, ideas, stub projects, stuff, words, WritingBenjamin M. Strozykowski

I don’t know why I haven’t written in two days. I just haven’t felt like I had anything great to say. Or else, I had wonderful things to say that I couldn’t put into words.

I’ve been toying with the idea of doing something new, but I have so many unchanged threads already going that it’s kind of a useless thing to add more “stuff” to my life.

I still have a long way to go in order to have all of my “stuff” collected, and therefore out of my mind, but that’s what I’m going to have to focus on for a little bit. Hopefully tomorrow will be another story.