tales of Suchita

There was a time in my writing journey where words like motivation and inspiration would dictate how much or if any writing I would do. I suppose I can forgive that naive girl since writing was a hobby for her and not something she thought she would be making a career in.

Thankfully, for my manuscript, I had no trouble sticking to a schedule or writing daily. In fact it was rather easy. Maybe the whole exhilaration of finally finding that one idea that would make me rich and famous helped me to ignore the kind of hard work I put into writing a hundred and fifty thousand words.

But once the manuscript was over, I had nothing to write and this became a problem. Here’s where this blog came to the rescue. Thinking of topics to write on a regular basis, removing time to actually sit and write something worthwhile and publishing it to see how it would be received not only kept me sane but also helped me to write better.

Where before I would simply close the empty word document because I didn’t feel like it or wasn’t feeling motivated enough, now any time my brain would throw up these excuses, I would say, “Shut up and write.” Most of the time, it worked. Either I would be able to write the entire post or I would at least put down the idea behind that post.

This was also the time where the rose-tinted glasses had to come off and all the glamour and dreams of being rich and famous had to be heavily painted with a colour of reality. A year of blogging has taught me that writing is so much more than a dream. It is a job, like any other job and thus requires you to be present even when you’re sick, or feeling low or want to run away. And no amount of dreams can take away the fact that just like a real job, you have to do it, every day, irrespective of how you feel.

March is my one year blogiversary month! And I am going to celebrate by penning down what I have learnt in this one year. Stick around for more.