Have you ever faced this problem.

this is mine, this strang desir of burning all what I wrote after making it on paper.

I thinked that it was just about a transparency, perhaps I am wrong, what do you do when you are an eternel unsatisfied person.

what are you doing when you can throw a way an idea witch is still in your mind.

what are you doing when you believe that, it isn't time and that it isn't the rieght word.

are you doing like me?

Read it and burn it.

please let me know about you personnal tip your hidden secret what are you doing when you got this crazy senssation, this crazy damned desir of burning.

Abdellah - you sound much like me!

I'm rarely ever happy with my writing -- seems like I'm never totally satisfied with anything that I create -- I always want to burn it when I'm finished.

Like this post...

-- maybe I should should simply hit "delete" and never have to see it again...

but in reality, I'm such a damn pack rat and I do like to go back and see what improvements I've made over time.

Abdellah - next time you feel like "burning it" -- stick it in a shoebox and save it for the future and see what progress you have made!

Oh yes, lots of times!

But, I'm kind of like Stephen - I either save it somewhere, or put it away for a while and come back to it later.

Abdellah - your post reminded me of something I'd about forgotten about.

A number of years ago, I was a writer in the media relations office for Florida State University. I churned out press releases, PSAs for radio, short articles on professors and their studies - that kind of thing.

They assigned me to write a story about one of the professors in the rehab department. This professor had polio while she was a child, but had overcome many odds to make it to becoming a full professor. It took me about three weeks to interview her, write..and rewrite..the story until the bosses were happy with it.

The day the story was to be released, something else took place on campus that was deemed more newsworthy, and my story was shelved.
"We're not going to use it now," they said.

It was one of those things I was ready to burn..and forget. I put it into a desk dawer, where it sat for at least a year. One day, while cleaning out the desk, I stumbled across that story.

The prof was still working at FSU, so I made a quick call to her, updated one sentence in the article, and sold it the next day for $45 to a local magazine as a freelance article. So, it didn't go to waste.

Could be gold in those ashes!

primoquest wrote :
Thank you primoquest for this advice, and for beeing too honnest, thanks.

radioboyalan wrote:


Thank you radioboyalan for sharing with us this truly story.

thank, and hope that we will get the power to fight this damn desir of burning.