Time Was On My Side


…and I man­aged to write.

I’m quite happy with myself about the whole thing. My wife decided to take the kids out after work and give me some time to try my hand at re-affiliating myself with some form of writ­ing, and I did.

After try­ing to start some­thing ran­dom — a free-verse poem, a descrip­tion — I gave that up and decided that I’d try to start an idea I’ve had in my head for a cou­ple of months. That was to no avail; the details are there, but the starting-block form is a mys­tery for now.

So, instead I revis­ited a work I’d started writ­ing casu­ally — as some form of exer­cise, but which took on an enjoy­able tone in itself. The above ‘flyer’ is some­thing I cre­ated when it was all in my head and the oppor­tu­nity never went away (cool poster, eh?) I even talked with my wife about pos­si­ble plot points and so on at the time, and we struck on an inter­est­ing, yet roller-coaster story and pace in which this could all happen.

Like I said, it was casual and only amounted to a cou­ple of .doc pages. I looked back a cou­ple of times, but the place in which I left it was a cliffhanger of sorts and I never knew where to go (much the way this piece is going — lit­tle direc­tion, and only motion based on present events as they are writ­ten.) But I came back to it dur­ing my ‘alone’ time, and some­thing came out.

I don’t want to rush the gun, and I’m not jump­ing in head first because I don’t want to drown in thoughts and ideas and over­whelm my frag­ile, human brain BUT I am writ­ing — huzzah.

  • Martha Alder­son

    It’s every­thing. Congratulations.

    I cau­tion writ­ers not to talk too much about about what you’re writ­ing about — you can talk it to death. Talk all the energy right out of it

    Blog­ging seems to have replaced ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion, so it seems only right that the same must apply here.

    I’m not so sure about that though. Some­times it seems as if blog­ging about the process has become the new process. Not the means to the end, but the end???/

  • RG Sanders

    Thanks for commenting.

    I won­der — nay — expect no-one to read this, so it’s funny to see that some­one actu­ally did.

    I agree. Writ­ing ‘about’ writ­ing is not writ­ing, and can obvi­ously lead one down the road of doing noth­ing pro-active other than muse their ideas and thoughts with­out turn­ing them into any­thing — or in some cases — fin­ish­ing them.

    I myself bal­ance the two. I attempt to write, and when I can­not, I often voice why not. Maybe to be heard, maybe just to vent a little.

    Who knows, but thanks for com­ing by!