Ever since I got back from Israel I've been wanting to tell everybody how wonderful the country is. I made a photobook which includes some of these pictures. Yet as someone who loves to write I felt I also needed to capture the experience in words. A diffuse fear of rejection and failure led me to procrastinate the writing for a long time
so I included "write the Israel article and submit it to Globetrotter" on my bucket list. Today I finished the first draft, a 4700 word piece, mainly while lying on the balcony and enjoying the summer evening. I'm far from happy with it but at least there's a draft that I can work on. Whenever I am in the process of writing I can never understand why I don't do it more often.
Is there an unfinished project in your drawer? Why is it still unfinished? Are you afraid to fail? Well I am trying to readjust my perception of what failure is because I think even if Globetrotter rejects me I have this written record of a journey that's been very important to me. Not attempting to write it would be a failure and not to finish it would be cowardice. And if I succeed I would actually be a published writer. Will let you know how it turns out and when I can cross it off my bucket list.
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