From the time I met my second love writing, the first being food, I have developed a sense of anxiousness and frustration towards it. Although, anyone would question me how can I get frustrated with writing? It's one of the things I love the most. Well, can't you get frustrated with your lover?
Whenever there's some thought I want to pen down, it always bothers me to think that may be what I have been thinking, someone else would have already thought about it. Then why should I write? Because if I did, then it wouldn't be original. And this constant overthinking led to frustration. (And here's one more example to the result of overthinking - you tend to get frustrated with what you love.)
And that my friends, made me write this post which focuses on two points mostly :
1. Don't stress about what others will think of the same thoughts you have about a particular thing. Well, I love food and you love food. But this isn't plagiarism right? Now an author won't be able to write this in such a simple language I think, and if he did, his soul wouldn't allow him. There will be lot of modifications going on in his mind. And thus, 'I love food' would become :
' It looked so yummy that my mouth couldn't resist watering
And thus the path from the plate to my mouth became lesser and lesser
And this is how my love for food began'
You see....no matter what, no one will be able to synchronize my thoughts with theirs and thus this piece of my mind wouldn't be ever constructed with the same words aligned in the same manner and tone. So don't worry if you love the same person as someone else does, may be your poetry would lure them into liking you.
2. Secondly, don't think what to write. That would lead to more frustration. Just start to doodle and something, even a line will appreciate you for letting it out of your messy and frustrated mind.
I may not be a prominent laureate or a reknowned writer, but this is what I feel about penning down my thoughts.
And for the question, how to pen down a novel by writing regularly.....well, I don't know. And that would be the saniest thing to say right now.