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 Well, not so much fun and leisure as...get some damn writing done, you fool! |
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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. |
| 07:47 My son hasn't slept much - he woke up several times during the night. As a result, we're both short of sleep, but he's nearly ready for nursery so I thought I'd jot down a few things before it's time to go. I've been cracking on with my assignments these past few days, since I finished the mermaid story, so I haven't done any writing. I had thought I'd love to put the little mermaid story up on Wattpad (have decided it will be Wattpad instead of Tapas) but I'm not so sure now. I've fallen in love with it, which is a far cry from the disinterest I had in it last year when I wrote it for NaNo, but it was a fun experience and I used two characters I absolutely adore so I don't know if I want to put it up somewhere so casually anymore. I'm thinking maybe the Svolteria story can go on there, which is already planned and everything, but I have several issues with that. And I can do it for NaNo. Killing two birds with one stone! I've only just thought of doing Svolteria so it's good to have a plan of action. I'll go over the planning again and do some backgrounding (popularly known as worldbuilding, I guess lol). I'm actually looking forward to it. I think it's important to always have a writing goal, even if you're not working towards it every single day. It keeps one motivated and keeps the craft alive so you're not putting in so much effort to reestablish writing habits when you've had sizable gaps between bouts of writerliness. Writerliness. Is there a preexisting word for that? 07:57 |
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