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07/05/02 - All work and no play ... yes, I�m taking a break. It�s the weekend and I�m going to dose myself with equal parts of writing, socializing, decluttering and sleeping. I�m not willing to give any of it up, I�ve just got to do it all ... somehow. I�ve gotten about 4 to 6 hours of sleep a night this week, but I�m feeling pretty good. I think all the physical labor involved in the decluttering, has actually boosted my energy. Socializing has become almost a daily event, although in small increments for now. And the writing ... I�ve become unblocked. Writing to me is a lot of fun. The creative process has lots of elements of play to it. I think the blocked part comes from putting a little too much importance on it. Then the fun disappears, it becomes work. Then I freeze up. Something about my writing has been on my mind quite a bit in the last year. That something was �voice.� My own writer�s voice. Well, I focused some on thinking about that, noting references made to it while reading writing related articles. I must have focused more than I thought I had as my �voice� doesn�t seem to be much of an issue to me now. Not that I couldn�t improve it or anything, I�m sure I will. But I�m not confused about it. And I�ve learned to realize that it�s just not my voice that is important. There are many voices. Each character I might work on has it�s own unique voice. And that�s different from POV, point of view. POV is something I started working on which came about as a sort of off shoot of �voice.� Confusing? Not really. See I�m actually talking about how the mind works. If you use awareness, it benefits you a lot. All this sorting out has come about purely on it�s own volition once the awareness was there. I�ve moved on to something else now ... scheduling. This was another �sore spot hot topic� of mine. How do I manage? How do I make time? Why isn�t there enough time? Seems I�m clearing myself up on that one too, again on it�s own volition. I�m caputuring more of my thoughts on paper now. I�m not having them and forgetting them as much. And, duh, I�m writing more, but spending less time doing it. Improvements will be forthcoming in this category as well. I know, I feel it to be so. And going with my feelings, especially lately, is the only way for me to do it. And since I�ve been talking about writing, I�ll close on a literary note. It�s not really writing related ... I�m sidetracking again. The decluttering process has cleared spaces in my mind, I think. More room to ponder. What�s literary about this quote is the fact it was written by a woman author. And, it was written many years ago. And, it seemed to bring up a sort of paradox. I jotted it down, before it escaped. �Anyone must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.� ~Harriet Martineau, Author 1802 - 1876 Back to decluttering now ... and pondering. |