The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.