The Best Appetizer to Bring to a Writer's Community: Yourself

I have a complicated relationship with writing. I’ve posted several blogposts throughout the years describing the successes and failures of different tactics I’ve used to actually enjoy writing: Writing: To Love or To Hate, Overcoming the Dementor and Essay Writing: From Frolicking to Mental Breakdowns. The common factor that’s helped me be successful in writing, is one I haven’t blogged about yet: being apart of a community of writers.

Essay Writing: From Frolicking to Mental Breakdowns

Frolicking with Creative Non-Fiction! Pic Credit

Hello! I haven't really used this blog this semester, because up until this point, I've been happily frolicking through fields of Creative Non-Fiction. Creative Non-Fiction has its own difficulties, but I am much more engaged and happy even when I'm struggling through writing it. Soon, I will make a post about revising and editing, because that is where I'm having issues. But now, my frolicking days are over. Now is the wonderful time in the semester when research essays are no longer an abstract threat, but a reality that makes me sleep on my couch instead of a bed and have mental breakdowns in between rows of books in the library. Last semester, I felt like I made a lot of improvements with my essay writing issues, but this time, I feel like I'm back where I began. So here's the breakdown on what's making me despise writing: