I realized as I sat down to write this Sunday update I much prefer doing my Wednesday check ins which are more topical and “here’s how much fun I am having with writing” compared to Sunday which is when I give an accurate account of what is working/what isn’t working with my devotion to writing.
Lately I have felt so much in the “not working” category, perhaps this is why I hesitate. With that in mind, I realize after next Sunday, I will have seven extra hours a day (plus, actually) open up for me in which to gather my thoughts, put words on the page, etc.
I am remembering why I loved taking a sabbatical from theater.
I am remembering why I am going back on sabbatical when these two shows are over!
So – away we go.
Writing/Craft
Write: Morning Pages Daily: I have not been writing first thing in the morning, but I do get in my stream-of-consciousness writing, perhaps not three pages, but close to that, daily. Hoping when I am back to going to sleep at a normal hour waking up and writing will also fall back into its normal flow.
Early in February I wrote about living this question (and writing this question) on a nearly daily basis as well as working on my personal 30 days of Self Forgiveness project.
Here is the question:
Am I willing to take the risk of giving my life “as it is now” up so that I may experience a different flavor of bliss~ an unnamed hunger I have never had and have not been willing to even long to experience?
Both have gone well – I will be coming up with another question and personal 30 day project for March as well. I found this process to be very fruitful even as I was willing to not be overly tough on myself.
M-F: write 500 on my novel-in-progress. I have been sucking on this goal. I have written 500 words on ny novel-in-progress two of the last five days. I wrote a snippet today and realized, “See? When you write this it doesn’t suck completely!” I just need to focus. (Once again, when the theater insanity is over, things will feel much, much calmer and I will feel much, much calmer and my words will come more easily again.
Also, “And Then Came” series is moving though not as lustily as I would like. I want to re-work this goal in March – and perhaps I have just thought of something? Hmmm. I will play with this in my mind before then. I adore this concept and what I have gleaned/written is good. It is important. I just haven’t given it the attention it deserves.
I attempted to go to my poetry critique group this morning but there was an emergency there so it was cancelled. I was grateful I prepared for it, though, including double reads of my poem since I have learned what they tend to pick pick pick about my poems. I just don't want to hear the stupid (to me) comments about punctuation or capitalization.
(See also Under social media )- Post at least 5 blog posts weekly. It is improving, I am happy to say, but still not up to where I was in December. Not even close. I hate to sound so ridiculously competitive, but I believe after this week… blah blah blah….
Read: Weekly ~ read One chapter each:
One craft book and one “fun to read” book (either fiction or Memoir).
The Making of a Story by Alice LaPlante is so very good. I worked through Chapter 3 and immediately applied some of the exercises with some of my students. Invaluable
When I finished Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor I was so proud of myself. I am now reading Wild Unrest, a biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Loving it, also.
Creativity as a Practice: Double rehearsals are making me crack a bit. From 6:30 PM until at least 12:30 am this week is about as stretched as I could ever imagine being….wow. By this time next week I may be mumbling “I think I can I think I can” and two weeks from now I will be dancing a jig saying “I knew I could I knew I could I knew I could!”
Social Media
Weekly: I’m getting better, as I reported above.
Biweekly: I did not do SOCSunday this week – I was cavorting in San Francisco’s North Beach getting drunk on the Beat Poets. Seriously wondrous experience I wouldn’t trade for any writing because it fills my writing well SOOOO very full. I did make it to Wishcasting.
Daily: I have visited blogs, commented on blogs, tweeted, retweeted, said “Howdy DO!” and participated in the #teamsprinty activities as much as I can.
Finally, REMEMBER I WRITE BECAUSE I LOVE IT and… Word-love has the power to change the world. One sentence at a time, we are having a positive impact on this beloved planet.
It all starts when one-by-one we move our pencils….(I use pencil for any writing tool… pencil is the generic catch word I prefer!)
Abundant Word-Love to all my ROW80 Friends and Friends-to-be!
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She teaches a teleclass/ecourse "Discover the Power of Writing & Telling Engaging, Enlightening Stories" which begins again March 15, 2012. Find details by clicking this link.
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