Writing....Never Read what you Wrote...

I have dabbled with the whole writing thing for a while now. It is not that I don't have anything to write about, it is that as soon as I get something on paper I then go back and re-read it.

DON'T re-read!

Every single time I look over what I have just read I think that is it a bunch of garbage (you can fill in your own expletives here if you wish.)

"How could a paragraph be written more badly!" "Why in the world would anyone care about this character. He is shallow and vapid." "I use more pronouns than can be counted by mere mortals." and "Don't you just love my dangling participles and violent run-on sentences" and so on.

The problem is, is that I write like I think. Sometimes it is in small staccato sentences, terse and to the point. Other times I think in long-winded, please put me out of my misery thoughts that never end. I need to find some kind of balance. In both my thinking and in my writing.

Oh well.

I know there are real good writers out there. Here are some titles of books that I will never (probably never) write in my life. Perhaps you can make something out of them.

"A Place in my Heart.....A Space in my Mind"

I see this as a romance; perhaps between an intellectual without much emotional experience and a vibrant artistic person, perhaps a sculptor.

"His other name was Susan"

Something like a writer who has taken on an alias for writing, making up a fake bio and life story to support his books, but then finds a woman who matches his alias exactly, and love enfolds.

"The Loud Silence: The Cacophony of Whispers"

A novel about living in a small town, and the power of rumors. Some turnabout in the novel would be when the main characters start learning how to use rumor to heal rather than hurt.

Feel free to write a book on any of them.