I
must admit that I went to the dictionary for this one. Zilch means nothing and
with this I’m thinking writer’s block. The feeling like your muse has abandoned
you for someone more talented and so nothing is being written even though
you’re fingers are poised on the keyboard ready to write something fantastic.
Zilch occurs. The page is blank.
There
are a lot of people who have told us what to do if this happens. My favorite
piece of advice is to write anyway. Nothing but crap may fill your page, but
crap is better than zilch. Crap can at least be edited later to turn it into
something better. Writing that crap may get the juices flowing so that the good
stuff starts to flow.
Thanks
for joining me for The Blogging A to Z Challenge 2013. I had a great time
writing the 26 posts. My imagination was stretched and I learned a lot, and in
essence that’s all I seek from writing. It was awesome reading the posts from
other challengers.
I
hope you will continue to join me on my blog for my regularly scheduled posts.
Take care and happy reading.
Check out the other blogs participating in the A to Z challenge.
Check out the other blogs participating in the A to Z challenge.
Crap is definitely better than zilch.
ReplyDeleteYay! We made it to the end of the challenge!
Woo hoo! Congrats to you and to me.
DeleteOnce you get going something usually turns up on the page. Often it's just getting started that's the problem.
ReplyDeleteWell done for finishing the challenge!
mood
Moody Writing
#atozchallenge
Thanks mood. It's usually the starting that's the problem. All of a sudden there tends to be so many other things to do other than write.
DeleteYour posts are always interesting and insightful, Nana. Good point of writing crap and turning into something good. We must've been on the same wavelength because my post was also Zilch, but I added Zero. Have a good day. It was a busy month.
ReplyDeleteThis would be the second time that we used the same word. That's cool.
DeleteI sat down once and wrote about how mad I was that I couldn't write. It worked and soon I had an idea :)
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the challenge, Nana. You had 26 interesting and fun posts.
Thanks Debbie. Thanks for following all of them. You are fantastic.
Deletethis was a great blog, Nana, enjoyed it. Yep, better to write crap, it can always be edited, unlike Zilch :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Georgia. Zilch is unworkable material.
DeleteI agree, sometimes you have to just start creating - anything - words, pictures, ideas, whatever, and then the real magic can start to happen.
ReplyDeleteThe initiation is the most important. Thanks for commenting Joy.
DeleteGood final post. I agree, writing something, anything, is better than nothing. And I often find it gets my writing flowing again.
ReplyDeleteWill definitely still be checking out your blog now the challenge is over.
Rinelle Grey
Thanks Rinelle. Thanks for hanging in there with me.
DeleteWell said. We all suffer from it from time to time, but writing only can help remove it! So write anyway! Good one for Z. And Yay!! for successfully completing the Challenge. Cheers :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Shilpa. I like what you said, "So write anyway."
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