On the Whims of Life
Writing by alphabete on Thursday, 4 of March , 2010 at 0237
(With apologies to Jeffrey Osborne)
It would be fantastic if I could say with complete honesty that I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been busy. It would be one fantastic lie. I’ve really been moping around and complaining a lot of being blocked and out of ideas and maybe having “lost my mad skillz” for writing.
That being said, I actually managed to get something accomplished. That something was mostly “finding impetus”. Not in the sense of “why am I doing this?” but more like “what can give me a push on a regular basis and won’t be too difficult?” I have seriously begun to doubt my ability and the only way to tell, I guess, if I really can’t write or if I’m in a funk or if I’m just being a lazy ho is to write some stuff. I keep starting out with that, meaning well, but I’ve found that projects I’ve taken on begin with the best of intentions from me but that I don’t have the strength to write extended narrative right now.
I have so many stories that are hanging out in my notes which began as outlines and degenerated into a mess of random notes. It’s very discouraging. Since I’m continually trying to find my writing sweet spot I’m trying yet another new thing. I finally got my deskal area cleaned off so I can start to write tiny fiction. Very tiny. I know I can write something tiny. Maybe I can do some tiny things and build up to some bigger things. No promises, though, because I’m a fickle creature and liable to mope again for several months at a moment’s notice.
I do have 2 short works of fiction in the works at UnMotivational Posters which will be a first for me, unless you count Pimpmanster. They’re longer than the tiny fiction I’m going for but I started them before I made up my mind to go small. They’re kinda smallish. Esque.
I’m going to write one thing definitely. Anyone who’s a blogger, please check this out. Finding Ada was begun last year by my friend Suw Charman, and is a blogging celebration of women in science and technology. On 24 March there’s going to be a wave of blog posts for Ada Lovelace Day 2010. Who’s Ada Lovelace? Whoa, dude! She was one of the first computer nerds ever! This is important because… Twitter hashtag is #ALD10.
I wrote a post for last year. It sucked.
So, to recap:
-Sorry for slacking.
-I’m going to try (again) not to do it again (again) again.
-Big narrative is too mighty for my puny narrative maintenance skills.
-Sometimes I write about men in lingerie.
-Short works in progress, other projects in pipe.
-Will try not to fail.
That is all for now.
For now.
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