The plan is to make sure there are at least 3 out of seven days in the week where I get real writing done. Eventually that should shift to 7, but baby steps. Three means that I am devoting no less than two hour chunks to the craft. The plan, as it stands, is to start with this ten minutes of freewriting and then go directly into some creative, well, creation. I want to repopulate my idea archive. Now as a professional there is a good deal of that archive I need to keep to myself. I don’t want to give all my story ideas away. I want to be able to write some of them. I also want to be able to give some of them away, so there is a good chance I will be repopulating the archive here on this site. Expect a new page that details such things. I’ll work out the specifics within the wordpress code.
Writing is the act of creation. It is more than just accessing our personal histories and talking about what did happen and what could have happened. Writing goes beyond that and becomes the thing that reflects our inner desires and fears. It is, to me, a kind of religion. I’m not trying to hype myself up here, just admitting that it is a fundamental part of my core being and despite a very hectic life (in need of organization and activity reduction) I have no expectation of living and not writing. I don’t believe I could or would exist peacefully in such a state. Even now when the ideas seem like the lone protozoa in an ocean of vapid thought, I know there is a need to populate my hours and thus my life with words and stories and in that fashion to recolonize the ocean of thoughts towards a goal of creation.
Some Thoughts:
- Yep, I am calling off the fantasy football. I’m not quite ready for the workload.
- Speaking of workload, I will not be teaching a novel writing class for the first semester in almost a decade. There may have been another similar gap when I first started my new school seven years ago, but I do not remember it. This is a poor development that demands attention. I love teaching writers. It fuels me to see their passion and ideas flourish on the page.