Suneet Sharma · A working notebook
From the archive · 2008 · Writing

What to Write

How many times I tried to write some thing/any thing, but every time I failed miserably, as soon as I commenced, I got over. I always used to struggle in deciding what to write and what not to.
I used to think first I will improve my vocabulary and grammar after that I will start with full swing and unfortunately that day never came.

It was not due to scarcity of topics or nothing dramatic happened in my life, what I feel today it is because of some absurd thoughts which say “Do every thing with perfection, be perfectionist” and that perfection actually barricaded me to enter in to the zone of creative writing.
Otherwise I could have written about the tales of DOCK FLOYD, my imaginary creation, an archeologist, found great deal in ruins and about his extraordinary journey in Nalanda.
But thoughts of using such a language, which will make everyone to say Awesome, halted me to build thoughts on top of my imagination. It was something like I wanted to write for others to show them what a wonderful language I can use, not for my joy and enjoyment, what a poor thinking.
I would say, feeling of becoming perfectionist blocked me until I didn’t start.
Today I think, one will surmount ones entire hurdle, once he starts. Things will be easier in due course of time, what one has to do just walk and walk along the path one wanted to walk.

After a lot of mental struggle which made my path zigzagged, my writing mundane and my thought process absolutely bleak I started.
I started writing for my joy, what a wonderful feeling I used to get when I imagine something, something else. It was the thought, how creative I can think, kept me going.

Originally published on the dockfloyd blog ↗.