For me, LJ is a convenient outlet (and incentive) for Writing, and so some of what I write here is Writing, but LJ is not implicitly that, so a lot of what I write here is more Chatting than Writing.
Thing is, chatting is easy and writing is ... well, effort / time / thought -- basically work, even when it's fun work and/or done for the love of it (or to quiet a nagging muse). After all, if writing weren't that, it wouldn't be the sort of thing we'd bother to talk about this way. But the net effect is that when I have a few momoents, or little energy, I dash off the easy suff -- the chattery -- and keep telling myself I'll get around to the Writing later (when I've gotten 'more urgent' things out of the way, when I'm more rested, etc.), with the result that I've got all these essay ideas piled up in my head squirming to get out, and a smll mound of guilt over not having gotten around to spending the time writing them.
(Er ... which is pretty much the definition of a writer-wannabe as opposed to a Writer, innit? *sigh*)
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Date: 2008-02-22 07:48 pm (UTC)Thing is, chatting is easy and writing is ... well, effort / time / thought -- basically work, even when it's fun work and/or done for the love of it (or to quiet a nagging muse). After all, if writing weren't that, it wouldn't be the sort of thing we'd bother to talk about this way. But the net effect is that when I have a few momoents, or little energy, I dash off the easy suff -- the chattery -- and keep telling myself I'll get around to the Writing later (when I've gotten 'more urgent' things out of the way, when I'm more rested, etc.), with the result that I've got all these essay ideas piled up in my head squirming to get out, and a smll mound of guilt over not having gotten around to spending the time writing them.
(Er ... which is pretty much the definition of a writer-wannabe as opposed to a Writer, innit? *sigh*)