While I'm trying to break down the walls that separate me from continuing FTMD, RR etcetera (Basically, there's been about 8 attempts where I've gotten several paragraphs in, or even a couple pages, before self-doubt and frustration and not being able to do work that was up to my self-instutited standards caused me to delete everything, and walk away even more frustrated then when I started.
I couldn't even bother my long-suffering pre-readers, because I KNEW that it was crap, and I didn't want to waste other people's time with writing crap.
Until today, after I posted the earlier update, one of my pre-readers messaged me, and let me know he was glad to see me continuing to fight writer's block. He closed his message with:
"Keep in touch and send me a copy of anything you write. I enjoy proofreading your writing. "
So, I decided to do a challenge. Not a new chapter of an existing story, because I've butted my head into a wall way too many times on that recently, but what I would do is sit down, and write a story where my fingers and brain led me. No spellcheck, no re-reading sections to see where it should go.
Just let my fingers type, let the words flow to the screen, and no judging my own work. So.. that loyal pre-reader now has a copy of a quick story I wrote up. I don't know if it's crap. But I have a feeling if it is, he can tell me how to make it a little less crap.
If it's not crap, I'll share it with the rest of the world.
In short, I'm trying to emulate the "hero" of this cartoon that was shared with me earlier this week.
https://imgur.com/gallery/qw02rv4