Random Ramblings - Page 55

Originally posted by: kautilya04

Hey Nyna,

If you wish to read them at leisure again, you can find them on Wattpad :) This is the link - https://www.wattpad.com/story/5090910-velvet-chains-and-other-short-stories

You can skip the first story, Velvet Chains *embarrassed* 😆 it was my first and last foray into the 'mature' genre, and I was quite anxious at the thought of youngsters reading it...until some of my wise young readers reassured me that the content did not qualify for the +18 category 😆

The list you've put up is awesome! Thank you so much for it 🤗 I don't read stories online and I'm too lazy to learn the rules of new sites, but am going to save this list for the future...just in case.

Love,

Ranjana

Originally posted by: Nynaeve

Dear Ranjana,

I read all of them, including velvet chains and yes your wise young readers were right about the grading of the content😆 I could be wrong, but I think that once you started off what you wanted to write, some hesitancy crept in and which is why it turned out the way it did - though you could actually weave a story with the arc of the prince conquering a forbidden land / cursed one etc. A good historical fantasy novel that could be. Well, that's not actually what happened but I know why you felt that way 😆 As for the idea about the historical fantasy novel, it sounds good and I'd like to read such a story but won't be able to write it :( 😆

I also did like your poem collection. Oh thank you for reading those too :)

The list, I am now learning is quite incomplete, but no worries, I will soon put an updated one.😊 Sounds great :)

love,

Nyna

Originally posted by: Nynaeve

Read this inspiring quote " NEVER FORGET - how far you have come. Everything you have gotten through. All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you could not. All the mornings you got out of bed, no matter how hard it was. All the times you wanted to give up but you got through another day. Never forget how much strength you have learned and developed."

This is true of life but I want to remember in context of my writing. I want to keep writing, even if what I have written reads like incoherent scribbles. Even when something I feel is good does not appear to be read by anyone else. Even if there are times when the ideas rattling in my head refuse to come out in the light of my laptop. Or when my fingers ache but still keep flying as the words come tumbling out. Even if my poems turn to prose, my prose is poetic and the story is pathetic.

I want to keep writing because it is so easy to give up. I want to keep writing because it is easy to lose belief in oneself. I want to keep writing because it is a struggle at times. Above all, I want to keep writing because I love to do so.

I simply love how the alphabets can be arranged in combinations to form words, words which lend them selves to sentences and sentences that create stories. I love to write because it lets me know how much I have learnt and how little I know. I love to write because it teaches me new words and makes me reach new worlds.

In the end it is as simple as that - I am a Scripturient being.

Maybe for you, life happened. And you began to feel sad, perhaps even guilty. Perhaps it was a new job that consumed more of your time and energies. Or maybe your bundle of joy innocently called for more of your attention. Perhaps it was something similar to the aforementioned situations. Or maybe it is as simple as you feeling like you've lost your writing mojo.

Whatever your situation, there are somethings you need to know.

Firstly, you are allowed to be sad. In this space, stifling emotions to perform a facade of rigidity is not allowed. Let yourself mourn if necessary. After all, mourning is a temporary ordeal.

However, so long as you wish to move forward in your desire to write, you are not going to be defeated. Feeling defeated is one thing, but being defeated doesn't have to be your reality. Your pen and your word processor were never your enemies. The words that you wanted to write but just never managed to were not out to taunt you. Your writing goals were not there to antagonize you with their incompletion. And if it was the rejection of your pitch that got you to abandon writing, know that it is one stepping stone closer to your "yes.

You are not a failure for your hiatus. In fact,some unexpected lessons could come from it. As you still consider the word "writer as a title, know that you are not an imposter for carrying it; it still applies to you if you let it.You still have an opportunity to give life to that cherished title. And it will, in turn, give life to your ideas and stories while also giving life to yourself, even on those days when writing gets difficult and your writer's muse seems quiet.

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