Great early morning discussion about the blog before the blog began this morning. My partner and I talked about the negative affects of writing this–especially at night. I tend to check out on writing once the blog is checked off my list. I do that largely at night, because the responsibility is off my back. Of course, when I am struggling to find ten minutes worth of energy and substance to write about at the end of the night for so many days and weeks, it makes sense that having it done earlier puts me at peace. However, this only reaffirms her point: It is an excuse to no longer write that day. So, yes there is truth in the allegation. So now what?
It falls to a reevaluation of the circumstances. I need to get back to writing first thing in the morning. No matter how uncomfortable it is at first. No matter how much it constitutes a change a circumstance in my life, I need to make writing a temporal priority. That is more than merely blogging for ten in the morning. I ought to write.
Some Thoughts:
- Still watching The Staircase. I won’t give anything away except to say that the documentary is very interesting and engaging and teaches me a lot about how to keep a reader on the edge with the introduction of new information. What I find the most engaging is the idea of who people think you are vs. who you actually are once the layers of obfuscation are peeled away. Yet still, people are still salves to believing in what they believe.
- Also getting back to the basics of words. In other words, I am back to reading. I have a backlog of texts sitting on my desk, but the opening act here in the ‘back to basics’ is to read a number of myths. I want to do one thing at a time in terms of reading. I think I got myself in a bad habit of reading multiple books at once, which led to me reading no books at all.