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Except it's really not. I have ideas for stories all the time. What I have is some sort of enthusiasm block. I start a story, and it just never goes anywhere. I think, in some way, blogging has had a detrimental effect on my writing, because I'm trained to pound out a couple paragraphs then immediately post them for instant feedback and validation. I've gotten impatient with anything that requires more than 5 minutes worth of effort.

And that's screwed up. What do some of you writers out there do? How do you manage to have a blog and still have enthusiasm for creating things that take a few weeks? I really need help with this. I started a story this morning and I have exactly one sentence written. I'm already depressed by how many more I need to write before it's done. I don't really see the point any more. I'm afraid that I'll never write anything of merit ever again.

Help.

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Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:35:00 -0700 A Month (and a half) without "Fuck" http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/a-month-and-a-half-without-fuck http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/a-month-and-a-half-without-fuck

In an ongoing challenge to myself to be a better writer, I'm going to kick one of my crutches out from under myself for the remaining days of June and the month of July: that crutch is profanity.

I'm not a prude, which should be obvious when you read back through my blog, but I've come to realize something about profanity, which is that very few people know how to properly use it. I've seen so many comics, images and jokes that would have been so much funnier if not for the "fucks". Profanity has its place, and nobody will argue that more strenuously than me, but I just want to try it out and see if it's possible to be funny on the Internet without wallowing in the glorious mud of profanity.

We'll see.

Maybe I'll give up after a week, but fuck it (last one!): some day we all have to grow up and stop writing and talking like we're in middle school.

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Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:22:00 -0800 Don't Be Angry Because You Didn't Think of It First http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/dont-be-angry-because-you-didnt-think-of-it-f http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/dont-be-angry-because-you-didnt-think-of-it-f

If I'm going to be dying, which is looking more and more like a reality I have to start getting confortable with (the scary thing is exactly how so fucking comfortable I am with it already), I guess it's about time that I got started on that one searing, heart-rending work of stupefying beauty that will seal my posthumous reputation as one of the most gifted writers of the 21st century.

With that in mind, I'll grant you a sneak peak in the form of a premise and a title.

It's about a former professional escort and her best friend, and they solve mysteries as newly-minted private detectives. They are also shemales.

The title: Dicks with Dicks.

This shit is gonna make me immortal.

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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:52:00 -0800 I've Forgotten How to Write http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/ive-forgotten-how-to-write http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/ive-forgotten-how-to-write

I wrote a couple paragraphs on a new idea just now, and I thought they were going pretty good, but then I noticed that my tenses were all screwed up. I saved the file, and I don't know when I'll ever get back to it.

That's as far as I could get: two paragraphs, and one of them was a pretty tiny paragraph. How can something that used to give me so much pleasure now seem like such a chore? Getting the words out of my head and onto the page was so much easier when I was young and had nothing to really occupy my mind but constant daydreaming. But daydreaming has been replaced with worry and depression, and unlike some of the greats, I do not find depression to be conducive to inspiration.

The mounting realization is that I will never succeed in any creative endeavor.

And I had so much potential in my youth.

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