For the past couple of weeks, I've been waiting impatiently for rain to come, because I've planted loads of seedlings for my kitchen garden and I didn't want to use municipal water to water the garden.So I waited for the rain to come.........................
and waited..............................................................
and waited...............................................................
and wondered how real farmers actually survive the stress of waiting for their crops to grow.
Then it struck me - writing is like growing vegetables. You prepare, your get your story idea ( seed), you plant it ( research and start writing) and then you continue to write until it grows and takes shape. You water, feed and weed the garden ( rewrite and edits). And the whole process takes hard work and patience.
Somehow I have the patience for the writing process. But the garden is driving me nuts. Come, rain already............!
4 comments:
This is so weird! I am the most impatient person I know and yet I have the patience to write :)
Hhehe! That is pretty funny. I would love to read a post sometime on your writing processes, like how you find inspiration and how you go about writing. But maybe that is too much like homework! I am just in awe at how you go about writing.
Your garden must have enjoyed the recent rains ;-)
Some of my stories start as promising little seedlings but never make it to big fruit-bearing plants. I'd make a rubbish farmer.
@po- I wouldn't mind posting about it. thanks for the post idea:-)
@tamara - ja, it did a bit. But I'd like to see more rain.
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