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Jun 9, 2011 at 12:26am
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Help! I need to find my own love of writing!
Good afternoon, guys -- or good morning if you're in the other parts of the earth.

I come here because I need help. I need to find my own love of writing. In the first days when I joined WdC, I loved it here 'cause I could write as much as I wanted and share my own ideas with others. But that was when I wasn't a college student.

Now busy life and tight schedule have limited my personal writing to a novel that I'm trying to work on. My own participation in WdC has been limited only to reviewing, reviewing and reviewing. Well, reviewing is nice, of course -- you can't be a good writer if you're not a good reader, after all -- but now I feel like reviewing is my only activity in WdC. I logged in and reviewed, then my short break was over and I had to log off again. That can't be a good thing. I don't even know since when reviewing feels like an obligation. I always blamed my limited time for not able to participate much in WdC, but now that I think about it again, perhaps I'm the problem here.

Okay, self-reflection time is over and I have decided to do something about it. I have cancelled all reviews that I should do until further notice, and I'm now off to find something else to do in WdC -- besides reviewing. I don't have much time to participate in contests and stuff, but if this keeps going on I might even lose my own joy of writing. I love writing and I will always do. That's the reason why I take the creative writing major in my university. But if this keeps going on, I might even lose that joy I still find in writing. And I don't want that.

Some people said that writers live to write -- and if they don't write they will feel miserable. Well, apparently that's happening on me right now. I need to write something again. That's why I need your help. Do you have any suggestion what I should do? I can't participate in many activities, as I mentioned, and I'm not sure if I have time to do any contest at the moment -- I'm too busy preparing for my exam. Is there any other way to have fun in writing that doesn't take much time?

Any suggestion will be the most appreciated. And, be careful, I hope you won't get this I-feel-miserable disease. It's even more horrible than writer's block. Trust me. *Sick*

Sorry if this post has been some kind of a rant.*Blush*



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Help! I need to find my own love of writing!
· 06-09-11 12:26am
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Re: Help! I need to find my own love of writing! · 01-07-12 8:29pm
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