Chasing Wattpad

You have my permission to squee

It's bad enough that I hardly write for Wattpad anymore. As it turns out I have other writer-y problems. I know what you're thinking.  How could a guy like me who writes at the drop of a hat have writer-y problems? Well I do. All the time. I fight writing like I fight washing dishes. I'm kidding .I love washing dishes. It helps me think. Anyway, I hate writing. But I have bigger problems than that. I don't get excited about writing or having written something like many of you do out there. As it turns out, - I don't squee. And if you don't squee on Wattpad you are probably not going to get anywhere. Wattpad was made for people who squee. 

Recently I have friended a lot of Wattpad writer friends on my Facebook account. A whole bunch of them. Most of them are girls of course. Come to think of nearly all of them are girls and they are nearly all romance and teen fiction writers. A few are fantasy writers. 

Whatever they are they all have one thing in common. They all squee. All of them. Somebody publishes a book and they squee. A friend of theirs publishes a book and they squee. Someone has a book signing and they squee.  Someone twits (tweets, lol) this or that and they squee. They are quite the squee-ing bunch. 

But maybe they are right to get so excited about things the rest of the world wouldn't even think about getting excited about. They are after all writers, and writers aren't normal people. Writers are crazy. Freaky even. And sexy, very sexy. As a matter of fact being a writer automatically puts you in the running for the sexy people hall of fame if you ask me. Which of course you didn't, but it's true. If you are a writer their is a unique sensuality in your thinking. It's not a conscious effort to be that, it's just that. Writing is the new sexy. 

But back to "squee". I probably should get crazy enough about writing that would one day lead me to let out a squee. I do get a bit excited when I make a good sentence. Every once in a long while I write a sentence and sit back and take a long look at it as if I have just solved the mystery of life. But that is where my excitement ends. No squee. I'm just don't think I am the squee type. 

First of all, I'm a guy. Guys don't squee. We just don't do that. Second of all I was cop. Cops don't squee either. I once walked away from a situation that should have killed me many times over in the span of a less than one minute. I didn't squee. It's just not in my DNA. I did sleep for 2 days straight after that though. lol

But, and this is a big but(t), maybe we should all squee once in a while. Especially us writers. We should all be in a position that we get so excited about what we are doing that we let out a big squee. Of course we can't all squee like a teenage girl (yes you) at some Bieber concert every time we write something, but it's okay to be excited about what we do. It's more than okay. It's something we should strive for.

So though I probably won't be letting out a squee anytime soon, I'll probably try and get more excited about what I am doing with my writing. You should try it too.

You are a writer and your writing is important to you. You should be proud of it and it should make you thrilled every time you think about it. 

Go ahead. You have my permission to squee.