Amit Solomon

A Writer and His Blog

In Thinking out aloud on June 7, 2010 at 3:55 pm

On this blog, I identify myself as a writer who is working towards completing his first book. But I’m not writing everyday. In fact, I don’t think I’ve written anything in over a month. That begs the question – am I writer?

Probably not. Not right now. Not at this moment.

I want to write but I don’t. The few times I sat down to write, the thoughts were all completely garbled. No words would flow from mind to paper. Of course, I didn’t sit long enough or often enough for the thoughts to gain some clarity.

Maybe that’s why writing a daily blog could help a lot of writers. It’s good to keep a private journal but a blog that anyone in the world could read, would keep a writer on his feet toes. And just the act of focusing on writing a short piece everyday should go a long way in unblocking any blocked/lazy writer. I say should because I haven’t tried it so far.

If I do start writing a small blog post everyday, I’ll definitely report back on how that is affecting my book writing.

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How Badly Do You Want to Succeed?

In Thinking out aloud on May 27, 2010 at 10:47 pm

How badly do you want to succeed at _______? (Fill in the blank your big dream/goal )

Then watch this:

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Starting All Over Again

In What's Going On on December 13, 2009 at 7:49 pm

My last post was in January. It’s December now.

What was I thinking when I started this blog? ;-)

I’ve been away from this blog for so long that I actually considered starting afresh with a ‘Hello World’ post.

BUT – it’s still 2009 so it’s probably that not that bad. Still time to make amends. Lets see if I can write a post at least every other day for the remaining days of the month.

I want to be a writer but I shy away from even posting a few words on a blog. Sometimes I wonder why I always avoid having to write.

One obvious answer is that perhaps I don’t want it bad enough. But it’s not just one reason, there’s another one.

I want every word to perfectly communicate what I want to communicate.

“Does this sentence make sense? Is the spelling right? Is the grammar a bit off? Could I use a better word there? Does this sound interesting? Is it flowing well? Should I just select all and delete and start all over again?”

And it’s never perfect. So I don’t write at all.

I’m going to change that. To hell with perfection – if the idea of perfection is going to keep me from writing.

I’m just going to write – a lot. First drafts are never need not be perfect. And this is a blog – not a novel.

Moving on to other stuff…

We (my wife and I) have closed the digitization business that we’d begun in 2003. Don’t know if we’d ever start it again. We’re thinking of using all that we learned in order to build another business but that’s still in the planning and researching phase.

I’m busy working on building a sustainable online business and am even doing a 6-month long intensive course.

Plus there are a few other things that I’m pursuing – I’ll talk about those in a different post.

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