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A while ago, I attended a writers' workshop and the lady who hosted it told us all to go away with this bit of advice - to write for just ten minutes a day. I was determined to go ahead with it and I did...for two days. So today I remembered that I'd resolved to do so and I whipped out my journal and wrote for fifteen minutes. I'm typing out pretty much the same thing that I wrote earlier, with some differences. I find I can go a lot more in-depth when I'm typing than when I'm writing by hand. Writing by hand is such a chore! I've struggled with loneliness a lot throughout my twenty-nine years. I struggled with it when I was the only one home with my mum when I was a teen and everybody else had other places to be. I struggled with it after marriage and when we moved into our own house for the first time. I struggled with it after my son was born and I felt torn between pursuing my writing and being a good mum, because my culture seems to indicate that a woman has absolutely no chance of living her own life - or at least, she has no chance of attaining any goals she hasn't already attained - once she has children. I feel it occasionally still, even though I get so little time to myself nowadays that any alone time is simply awesome. I've tried to come to terms with the idea that being alone isn't a bad thing - and a lot of the time, it isn't. My friends don't live nearby so I don't get to see them often, and even when I do, I feel like there isn't much depth to our conversations. I'm surrounded by people who do not think like me, who do not share any of my interests and hobbies. I feel like I've become desensitised to isolation. Loneliness is my preferred way to be. I walked into my college cafeteria at lunch today and it was the usual hubbub of activity. Youngsters walking around, chatting animatedly, shouting across the room, laughing, eating, socialising. I could recall how that clamour wouldn't have bothered me ten-twelve years ago, when I would have been one of the youngsters talking excitedly with her friends. But, as this moment, I just found an out-of-the-way little table and sat down. I watched the crowds for a while, wondering why it was only at moments like these that the sense of isolation became so strong. In the middle of a crowd, I feel most alone. |
| 22:51 Not sure about this one. If the prompt had been "someone famous", I'd say Keanu Reeves. But the names of...semi-famous people don't spring to mind easily and it's late. Hold on. Thinking hard. No, that just makes me want to go to bed. Ok, no thinking hard. Hmm...the last movie I saw was Big Hero 6...and I don't know who the voice actors were! Live-action movie then. My last live-action movie was Constantine. So it can't be the main actors so...Rachel Wiesz? Hers is one of the main characters, though, right? So...Er...Shia LaBeouf? But he's also...major, right? The only other actor I can recall from that movie whom I've seen in other works is Tilda Swinton, and when I say "other works", I just mean Doctor Strange. And a brief appearance in Endgame. I like how she plays tough, not-very-feminine roles. In fact, I don't even know if "Gabriel" in Constantine was supposed to be a male or a female. But I don't particularly want to meet her. I don't want to meet anybody who is "Hollywood famous" - maybe just a few, who've been lauded for their achievements beyond the big screen. I know actors might imbue their characters with some of their own traits to give those characters some depth but I'm still only interested in the personalities they portray on the screen - what they do beyond that screen is of little concern to me. I'd love to enter Fictionland and meet some of those characters! Now, if you were to ask me which famous person I'd want to meet as a writer, I think my response would be Brandon Sanderson. The man is amazing! I'm nearly halfway through Oathbringer and I am enthralled. I wish I could read it start to finish and not have to worry about anything else in between. But then I'd be sad that I finished it so soon. 23:08 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
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