What is painless writing? What is painful writing?
Painless writing is when the words flow from your mind onto the paper and keyboard.
Painful writing is when you pour your heart and soul into your work, only to get it rejected. Or worse yet, after months of waiting, not even receiving a reply.
Painless writing is writing for free, because you love to write.
Painful writing is writing for free, while spending money for books of the craft, conferences, contests, reams of paper and writing classes.
Painless writing is the wonderful, encouraging and understanding writing friends you meet.
Painful writing is when family and friends just don't understand. They don't understand the work and time involved, they don't understand that writing for children isn't easy, they don't understand what an accomplishment it is to get published (no matter how small the publication) or they don't understand how hard it is to get your story picked out of a huge slush pile of stories.
What is the purpose of this article? It is to say that writers need to be tough and persevere the times of painful writing until the painless writing overcomes and our goals are met.
And also to show you a book I purchased at the WVUP Bookstore when we went there on Wednesday to buy my son's college books for next semester. It was only 9.99, so I bought it. They also had books titled
Painless Grammar and
Painless Vocabulary.It is filled with writing challenges called Brain Ticklers, examples, tips and web site addresses for further information on topics in the book. It takes you
here . . . click on writing advice for lots of helpful information. Plus there are many more site addresses where you can go for helpful information.
To help your writing to be a little less painful, go
here for character traits and go
here for descriptive words.
Of course, the most important thing of all is writing the story everyone is wanting to read, the story that hasn't been written yet and the story all the publishers are looking for. So, write down your list of goals and write, write and write.
What is your definition of painful or painless writing?