Writing Advice and Feedback Please

“I thought this writing was supposed to be enjoyable and relaxing. But it seems like it’s making you more stressed out than usual.”

Someone recently made that statement to me and I have to say, it sort-of pissed me off, maybe because there’s some truth to it.But I think it also bugged me because the person is not a writer, and doesn’t understand. Possibly.

Sometimes I feel like St. Augustine in a cell…

St. Augustine writing, revising, and re-writing: Sandro Botticelli’s St. Augustine in His Cell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

That’s why I’m posing this question the writing community. What’s it like for you guys?

I really do love to write. It gives me great gratification. But it’s usually a lot of work, trying to get the words out of my head and heart-to allow my emotion to bleed onto the proverbial page. Sometimes a blog post will take hours. Other times it flies right out, seems almost perfect. Is it like that for everyone?

It’s frustrating when the daily grind gets in the way of this thing I enjoy so much, when it feels like there’s never enough time. I have dreams of the day when I can spend hours  just writing stuff down, looking stuff up, reading other blogs, learning more about WP. Learning more, period.

And  there’s the ever-present question-why am I doing this? Where’s it going? Am I wasting my time? Right now it sure don’t seem to be going anywhere quick. (I did that on purpose-just in case anyone cringed.) And I’m putting a helluva lot of time into it.

So this is my post for tonight. It’s not three hundred words. I’m excusing myself again because of the hours I put into editing the contest short story.

I look forward to comments from those of you with more experience than I. Do you stress over your writing?

Thanks.