Happy New Year! I had planned on doing so much writing over the past few weeks but the holidays, being sick, and life got in the way. I had (and still have) great ideas for blog posts, and I was really (and still am!) excited about writing them. I just didn't do it.
Over the holidays, I was talking to my family about Write Well University and how it's shaping up. My aunt asked me a question (which I can't remember), but my answer was, "If I had my druthers, I'd go away for six months to a cabin and just write - write every day." My aunt replied, "Yep. That's what I always pictured you doing."
(For those of you who don't know, "druthers" is the noun form for "I'd rather." I had to explain it to my twenty-one-year-old cousin. I didn't think I was that old! It's not like I used the term "high-test" or anything. That one's for you, Vicky!)
Now, going to a cabin isn't really feasible for me, so I have to find ways to incorporate cabin life into real life. I started yesterday by devising a sample schedule.
Another aside: I balked a bit at the idea of creating a schedule. 2006 was so much about BEing instead of DOing, and I so don't want to go back to that DOing, DOing, DOing all the time again. My idea was to create a sample schedule, an idea of a schedule, that I could pull out as needed.
Today it started. My entire Thursday morning was free, and I decided to devote it to writing. However, I found that I was finding excuses to put it off. Hmmm. Interesting. So I pulled out my Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice, and I began writing. I wrote about how I was afraid to write and what I was afraid of writing. It was quite therapeutic, and immediately after I did some writing on my - gulp - novel. Yikes! You'll never know how hard that was to say, err, write.
Afterward, I went through one of my past Writes (that's what Metcalf calls these exercises), and I was stunned at the power of the writing. I've gotten away from a regular writing practice (the situation with my eyes is responsible for some of that lapse, but it shouldn't have caused me to completely step away from writing - I let that happen), and I've forgotten how wonderful it is.
I'll be posting the Write that really opened my eyes (sorry - couldn't help it) tomorrow. Look for it!
And may you never let anything get in the way of your true passion.
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