"There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
Ernest Hemingway
Susan Lucile McCarthy, Author of Fantasy
Sometimes writing is a horrible botch. At other times, it's glorious but there are those times when I plod along, stumble, and it almost breaks me.
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Member: SCBWI
Events: SCBWI Summer Conference,
2024
DFWcon, October 5-6,. 2024
PHOTO: Susan Lucile McCarthy, Author
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High School play where I was a robot and my boy friend is giving me a waist-bending kiss. Photo taken by photography club.
How did I get Here?
DRAMA, THESPIAN, PLAYS, AND COMPETITIONS.
My shining moment was when I
I walked away from a drama tournament with a cheap small plastic trophy decorated with a little metal plaque on the front, '1st place' - a reminder that hard work had its merits.
My coach insisted I compete in comedy impromptu interpretation.
It's like charades. Improv and you don't know what you will present until you pull out three blind choices. It was a tough game, finger-biting at its best.
What do we Share in Common?
If I'm like you, I believe. When we try something new, something scary but brave, we put ourselves out there to fail. People we know might laugh and insult us. It frequently blows a hard knock. Sharp and cruel, acting stupid hurts.
When I started writing fiction, I didn't understand theme or plot or characterization. Oh, and let's not forget literary style and devices. Sure, I had vague ideas. How would I pull them off?
Also, if you're like me, when you try something new, you have to go over and over in your mind to understand how to do it. You work on the problem, thinking you'll never figure it out but you keep trying. Only then do you get it. Sometimes even then, you don't. If you're not like me, and grasp a new idea on the first get-go, you're mighty lucky.
I grind away at my writing. The swell in my chest when I write a good sentence, manage those silly but all important commas, or show and not tell — how long it takes to get there — I never count the minutes or hours or days or months.