MY VOCAB PRACTICE:
Novelty:
I refuse to grow because I consistently reject of novelties that will take me away from where I think I need to go.Innovation:
The innovation it takes to come up with sentences and have them mean something is the reason I wake up in the morning to shave.Novice:
I understand that I am a novice writer who struggles with creating stories that people will enjoy reading.
I'm struggling with the creation part. Not a problem when I'm inspired and the piece is coming through me and out. Not a problem when I write random sentences for the vocab words. Not a problem with the freewrite either (there is no way to screw those up). However, when I've sat down for some of the fiction story challenges, I'm hitting major road blocks. I do think I am making it way more complicated in my head than it actually has to be.
Some of the challenges are around speaking about things and naming them. I've always had a terribly tough time with names and thinking of them on the spot has stopped my creative flow quite often. If you have ever seen "The Legend of Korra" (Avatar - The Last Air Bender: These two series are soooo awesome! I highly recommend you check them out), there is a character named Verik who refers to everything as a thing when he asks something of his assistant, Julie. Verik will be like, "Julie, had me the thing. Do this and that thing. Clean this thing.," and the thing gets done. I'm a lot like him. haha
Good work!
As for novice writers, even many of the most accomplished writers consider themselves novices in the craft. There's always something to learn, and always room for improvement. That's part and parcel of the process of creation.