Comments on: Writing Excuses Episode 17: This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer

By: Metz Kelly » Blog Archive » This sucks and I’m a horrible writer

Metz Kelly » Blog Archive » This sucks and I’m a horrible writer — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:27:06 +0000

[...] of self-doubt and self-pity. It’s like the Writing Excuses guys termed "This sucks and I’m a horrible writer". It’s a symptom I get that seems to be hitting me more and more [...]

By: DallanRohlfing

DallanRohlfing — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:32:58 +0000

The best book for writers who can’t seem to finish a book is The 90-Day Novel by Alan Watt. It teaches you how to turn off your editor and write from your creative side. It helped me incredibly, I highly recommend it.

I had the eternal first chapter problem for years. I found that the key to fixing this problem was to come up with my ending first, then to write with my right brain and write it quickly. The logic side of my brain was taking over my characters and that always makes for terrible writing, apart from Spock characters aren’t logical beings. I had always been afraid that if I wrote a book quickly it would suck. I had to learn to allow myself to suck, I could turn my editor brain on later when I was revising.

After I had discovered my characters, their internal conflicts, and my ending I found that my characters wrote the story themselves, plot twists and all. I recently found a novel I had written long ago and forgotten about. It was the only novel I completed in my youth and I did it in something like 2 weeks. And honestly apart from the ending, which I know how to fix, it is so much better than my other writing at the time which was all first chapters of course.

By: Writing Methods (Part One) « Paige Bruce

Writing Methods (Part One) « Paige Bruce — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:09:54 +0000

[...] for it – Look for “Fast Draft”), and two, I was listening to Writing Excuses. This is the episode in particular, actually, that really hit it on the head. Both of them were essentially telling me the same thing – knock out, gag, strangle, do [...]

By: Barry White | Insatiable Desire

Barry White | Insatiable Desire — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:41:00 +0000

[...] me listen to one of the episodes. The podcast is called Writing Excuses and the episode is titled “This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer.” Perfect for [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:29 +0000

Here is the link to the Neil Gaiman story Dan told:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/node/1065561

It was a pep talk for NaNoWriMo for one year too it looks like.

By: Resources for Writers: Writing Excuses « Writer’s Block

Resources for Writers: Writing Excuses « Writer’s Block — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:30:35 +0000

[...] point you to Season One, episode 17 : it’s the one that helped me to jump start myself back down the path to finishing my story. [...]

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:24:40 +0000

This was actually very helpful. I just finished revising my first draft of my first book and was feeling depressed and was literally thinking, “This sucks and I’m a horrible writer” I remembered seeing this and planning on listening to it, and now I’m feeling much better. Thank you =]=]=]

By: Beginnings are hard « Writing Every Day

Beginnings are hard « Writing Every Day — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:13:10 +0000

[...] pep talk I’ve listened to was an episode of Writing Excuses with the most excellent title: This Sucks And I’m a Horrible Writer. After a bit of tomfoolery, they tell a great Neil Gaiman story about how three quarters of the way [...]

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:11:10 +0000

I realize this is late, but I am just now catching up on episodes and heard this podcast. The Neil Gaiman post you reference is on the NaNoWriMo site- it was a pep talk that participants received last year.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/node/1065561

By: Writers Unbound » Blog Archive » Thursday: 13 Podcasts for Writers

Writers Unbound » Blog Archive » Thursday: 13 Podcasts for Writers — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:47:41 +0000

[...] Writing Excuses offers a lot, but I think you should start by listening to Episode 17: This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer, regarding writer’s block and that self… [...]