I work as a radio scriptwriter. I currently write about 10 regular articles per month, and 9 of those articles are ones I can write automatically if I can gather the materials (of course, I need to think about the angle and other aspects).
However, for one story, you have to create a story from scratch, with no reference materials to speak of.
This is difficult. It's been five years since I took on the project, but even now, as the deadline approaches, I still wish I hadn't taken it on.
I'm not good at lying.
But writing a story means having to lie.
Every part of a story is a lie, from beginning to end. When these false parts are put together in the right way, they become the truth.
It takes intricate logic to stick to a lie, a talent for making things add up.
Every month I feel depressed, thinking that this is what I'm missing.
But work is work.
I think this job has come to me as God's way of telling me, "Don't just do what you like, try doing some things you're not good at as well."
It's true that there is a sense of accomplishment that comes from overcoming something you're not good at.
However, the time it takes to achieve the goal is very long and frustrating. It's tough to find the goal of the story.
I guess if someone with a rich imagination thinks, "Oh, I want to write about this theme," they can easily come up with lies to reach their goal. That's amazing. Maybe writers lie all the time, as if they were breathing. Maybe they commit fraud or adultery all the time. Maybe not.
I can't do that. It takes me a long time to come up with a lie, and I can't think of any lies to support it.
Apparently my parents put "Nao" in my name so that I would become an honest person. Ah, if I had been Iwasu Usoki, I would have been able to write it more fluently.
Of course, the reason I'm writing this nonsense is because I haven't even been able to write a single line of the next manuscript.
Stop running away and give up! Me!
Yes. We will try to make the number of zeros around 0.1.
