I think the main reason I started this blog was as a way to get my thoughts written down, and to really get in the habit of writing something every day. The hardest part, especially as I get older, is finding something interesting to write.
Every day is much like the previous, and the following. An endless flow of tiny day-bumps on the highway of my boring life. I think I need to try to celebrate the little things more. Make the insignificant significant, and enjoy those little things that make you smile each and every day.
If you cannot find any of those moments that make you smile during your day, you may want to rethink your choices!
Things that made me smile so far today?
My youngest son, putting his shirt on backwards for the 900th time
My Buddy emailing me links to pages I have already read on the web, proving that even though we have not seen each other in 4 years, we still think alike
All three of our dogs lying together on their bed, wagging their tails and smiling when I walk by.
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A wonderful start to the blogging, muh main mayn. But I have to admit to my curiosity about something: of all the pursuits available to you, why did you choose writing?
This is a notion that’s fascinated me over the past several years. From what I can tell, there’s a fair amount of change taking place in the world of writing – with all the pluses and minuses that come from transformation. The world of publishing continues to find ways to move paper products in an electronic society; as a result, more and more specificity of genre and topic hit the shelves in an effort to tap into the specific subcategories of people who just need to see it on the page. Meanwhile, the internet has provided a platform for the common man, making more and more people convinced that they have as much of a right to tell their tales as any academic scholar or move-tie-in paperback pusher. More and more people are working on their manuscript, their novel, their poetry and short story collections than ever before in the history of the world. And still I can’t figure out the “why now?” question that naturally springs to mind.
Maybe it’s the medium of the web that is freeing. Instead of facing the solitary world of notebook stacks, Sharpie pens and clattering typewriters, the average joe can reach out to millions of potential readers with an opportunity for direct and instant response from those affected. That potential for action/reaction is not only astounding, it’s an amazing driver as well. If ambition truly is the drive for mastery and support of an audience, then the web can spur one aspect as it provides the other in spades when it comes to writing.
But I know availability of an audience is only part of it. It’s the other part that I find so stymieing.
I can dig the writer’s notion of the eternal: that thing that gets created and says “this is who I am at this moment, and this is what I have to share with the world from this point on.” And I get the concept of everyone having a tale to tell this side of hell. But these ideas have always been around; they can’t be the only things that needed green-lighting at the dawn of home computing.
So I put it to you, B- to the LOG- to the R-O-N: beyond the stated goal of creating a new habit, what makes you want to write?
Is it the need to get the story out? To find connection to others? To entertain? Validate an untapped talent? Gauge the talent’s measure or worth? Expand simple notions into full-fledged constructs? Give birth to new people, places, times and things? Make new adventures for Sailor Moon or Harry Potter?
Show me some cards, poker-face – ‘cause I’m interested in what you plan on dealing!
All very good questions. My main reason is to keep my creativity sharp. I really love big weird ideas. I get several every day.
I figure with a blog, I can throw out quick mind bytes, bounce around some crazy ideas, and hone the art of the sentence.
My job has become a bore after 10 years of doing the same crap, and I have wanted to be a writer since my story won a contest in the 3rd grade.
In a perfect world, I would like to write for tv or video games, because I prefer the short format stuff.
Long format things like movies or novels don't hold the same charm.
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