Rediscovery

Rediscovering what you had lost. As writer's, we learn and grow each and every day. We experiment with our style and different types of writing to find how we best write ourselves. What genre or type of writing works best with the way we write, so that we can focus our attention on those areas in order to be able to make a living at what we love to do. Sometimes during this discovery process, we lose what we had to begin with.

Maybe when you started writing, you only wrote a certain genre. It is how you got started, and the reason why you love to write, but somewhere along the way you lost the muse for that type of writing. You are doing so many other things, and trying so many types of writing that the writing you love most to do got lost in the shuffle. This does happen. It happened to me. For me, I began by writing romance stories. I was all about the romance. In the past year, I haven't been able to right a true romance. Something always got in the way. I even have an incomplete novel sitting in front of me. All I need is to write the ending, and it is done, but no don't feel a romantic bone in my body, so there it sits.

Don't worry though. Something will trigger in your mind someday, and you will return to what you love to do. It will not happen on a time frame. You can't say to yourself, next month I will write this. You will write what you are going to write when you are going to write it. That is how writing works. If you force yourself to write a certain thing, the product you produce will come out bad. You will not be happy, and it might set you back further.

Just write what comes to you as it comes. That might change daily, so just go with it until you find what you love writing. It might be what you loved at first, and it might be something different. Whatever it is just write. Don't ever stop writing. If I were to stop today, I think I would go nuts cause my mind is always so full of images and dialogue. If I didn't put them down on paper, they will just stay there until I lose them. Why not share it with the world?

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