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Blog started in Jan 2005: 1st entries for Write in Every Genre. Then the REAL ME begins |
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It Hurts When I Stop Talking Sometime in Fall of 1998, when a visit from Dad was infrequent, and primarily at the mercy of his 88 Toyota making the 50 mile journey, I was being treated to lunch. The restaurant was my choice, I think. Sisley Italian Kitchen at the Town Center mall was somewhere my dad had not yet tried, so that was my pick. Either I was being treated to the luxury of lunch and adult conversation without my husband and 5 year old son in tow, or that's just how the moment has lodged in my memory. The more I think about it, they probably were there, but enjoying the Italian food too much to bother interrupting. Daddy and his lady friend at the time, Anne, came up together and made a day of it with me and the family. We were eating together and talking about some of my scripts, stories, coverages, poems and other creative attempts that really were not seeing the light of day. I think I'd just finished a group reading of The Artist's Way and was in a terribly frenetic mood over my writing. I think I'd just given them an entire rundown on a speculative Star Trek script. My Dad asked me point blank, “Why don’t you write it?? Anne agreed. It sure sounded like I wanted to write it. Why wasn't I writing seriously? It's what I'd set out to do when earning my college degree in Broadcasting many years earlier. Heck, I should, I agreed non-verbally. “I will.” But, I didn’t. Blogs can be wild, unpredictable storehouses of moments, tangents, creative dervishes, if you will. I'm getting a firmer handle on my creative cycle. My mental compost heap (which is a catch phrase from Natalie Goldman or Julia Cameron - I can't think which, right now) finally seems to be allowing a fairly regular seepage of by-products. That may be a gross analogy, but I give myself credit to categorize my work in raw terms. It proves that I'm not so much the procrastinating perfectionist that I once was. Still, I always seem to need prompts and motivation. Being a self-starter is the next step. My attempt to keep up in the Write in Every Genre Contest at the beginning of the year seemed like a perfect point to launch the blog. |
Soundtrack of my Life Normally rated for Everyone, but the lyrics in the video contains some language What can I do to reignite my writing -- Today would be the first day in a couple decades, honestly, when I have entertained writing a script. I give inspirational credit to the Oscars telecast (and all the truly great cinema that I watched in 2019). When I pulled together the seed of my script idea this morning, my first thought was, "I need to document this in my blog....That will get me to start on it seriously." But then, (probably as an avoidance tactic) I found myself neither in this Blog nor the Word document I opened at the beginning of the day. And in my Newsfeed...where I found something new to both distract and steer away from writing, but stir my creative curating -- The Soundtrack of Your Life Challenge So, Day One seems serendipitous -- Eminem's Lose Yourself is my newly rediscovered pick. My re-introduction to this marvel of lyrics and even its beat came in one of those car trips when everyone in the car has to agree. Although I will admit it takes my youngest sometimes pushing, "You have to hear this song!" followed immediately by it being piped through the car speakers via HDMI connection, regardless of my interest. Here is also where I have to confess that I would have otherwise never given a thought to Eminem, since rap was not my scene. The Oscar performance from Sunday, (which happened 17 years after the song was awarded the 2002 Best Song in a Motion Picture Oscar for 8 Mile ), is perhaps the better watch, but I am recognizing the actual song and all it says. Songwriters: Jeffrey Irwin Bass / Marshall B Mathers / Luis Edgardo Resto Lose Yourself lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.  |
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