Writing as a chore.
I find myself procrastinating as a writer. I have a hard time finding anything that interest me to write about. It always tends to be homework…go figure. Writing is not a passion of mine so I never want to do it. I would rather do something that I actually enjoy with my time.
Also, I have never considered myself a good writer. I look at papers I’ve written and I think, geez that sucks. My skills as a writer are slim to none. I have good ideas about what to write but I can never seem to make them come out right on paper. I learned long ago that I’m not meant to be a writer.
The one thing that I hate the most about writing is the long process of it. You make a first draft and then you edit that. Then that becomes your first rough draft. Then you re-write that draft to make a second rough draft that needs edited. Then you take the good and bad from those, combine them, edit them, and then write your final, which will be edited and then revised. It seems like a lot of worthless time. I like just doing stuff right the first time and never looking back but I can’t do that with writing. I think that is what I hate the most about writing.
