ENDA Episode 196→ The time when ENDA ponders about writing (Part 2)

One of the things that writing consistently as ENDA has made me reconsider is all those writing projects I tend to leave unfinished.

Not because I hate writing, or because I don’t enjoy it. On the contrary, I love writing. No, I adore it. And ironically, that’s exactly why I have to hold myself back for my own good.

When I start writing my own stories, I don’t stop.

And when I say “I don’t stop”, I mean it literally: I do not stop.

I write non-stop for hours, sometimes rewriting and polishing passages again and again just to make sure the coherence and rhythm hold together.

To compare, when I’m compositing, I can also go for hours, but it’s easy for me to take breaks, because I’m still aware of my environment.

When I write, though, I lose all sense of time. I keep going even when I know I should stop. I won’t lie: sometimes I scare myself when I’m writing, because I can’t step away until my brain decides the story has reached a “decent enough” stage.

That’s one of the reasons I often put my writing projects on hiatus. I know that, to return to them properly, I’ll need an entire day, or at least a large block of time, because once I begin, I won’t stop until I’ve finished a significant section.

So here I am, writing these weekly episodes… while trying to gather enough time to return to the bigger writing projects I keep on the side, waiting for the moment when I can finally tackle them properly.

But what are those projects?

Well, that will be for a future episode.

The journey continues...