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Sunday, January 30, 2005
When you pull this up, you get a blank page. That is a fearsome thing. I have been having a really, really hard time overcoming the blank page. I started to put down "the lethargy that is the blank page" but it sounded too trite. I think. I may not be using "trite" correctly. So actually, I want to say that it's just laziness that makes me look at the blank space and not try to fill it. I just find that sometimes I --no wait, that's most of the time-- I am having a hard time finding a subject. I should be writing every day. I have not been for the past few. Now, granted I have been pretty sick for most of two weeks. I missed a little work, but not much. And how hard is it to sit and move your hand or fingers? I'm saying here that sick isn't really a good excuse. At least, it's not the whole reason. I have been off and on, though, so I guess that counts for something. I have been doing a thing called the Daily Pages. I missed it for a few dailys, however, but have the resolve to go until this thing takes root. The Daily Pages is an exercise I got from a book called The Artist's Way. The author says that you should just sit down and write three pages every day. She says do it in the morning, but I have read that it can be done other times during the day. Just sit down and write. It doesn't matter what. It doesn't matter about what. If you want to write the weather for three pages, more power to you. It doesn't matter about punctuation, or spelling, or handwriting. Because you will never read the pages. Toss them. (OK, the author says don't read them for eight weeks, but others say don't read them at all, ever.) The idea is to get rid of the cobwebs and the roadblocks and the self-censorship. So I've been doing them. I have to tell you, I couldn't read mine again if I wanted to, and I know because I tried, of course. Two days later it doesn't make any sense, so don't read 'em. I started with the blank page, and how I feared it. This little chat I'm having with myself here is helping already. More later.
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