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April 01 New BeginningsToday is April 1st, 2008 ... such a significant date for me. It has been exactly one year since I moved into my little apartment with Ben. It has taken pretty much a full year of adjustments to reach this point and it has been very much a learning year in a way. Lots has happened, both good and bad, although not on a tragic scale. But it also has been rewarding in a way. I learned to live alone, yet was never really alone. I needed that time to get to where I am today .... a little bit stronger, content and happy. I am ready now to forge ahead. I look forward to meeting more people I can confidently call friends. I am ready to return to my real writing, whether it be cleaning up that dusty fictional novel I wrote such a long time ago, or my short stories, both children's and fantasy, or poetry. No matter the genre, I am ready to be `Me', to carry on once again with the one thing I do love doing most. So what if I don't ever get published. That would be nice, but it isn't my ultimate goal right now. I feel I can still contribute a great deal to my family and friends in some way, to have something to leave behind some day.
Ok, this is likely beginning to get a bit sappy, so .....
I suppose my first focus will be a special poem of sorts (upon request) for my nephew's new baby, their first, who is due in a couple months ... one to commemorate the coming birth, the first-time granparents on both sides. I recall writing a special little poem for the parents-to-be when they married a couple years ago. They tell me they still have it and will always cherish it too. Once I complete this little "task" I am going to just write. I am learning, or rather refreshing my memory, of all the "how-to's" in writing and rather than remain bogged down with the question, "What will I write about?", I will simply go into "automatic writing" mode. It isn't really so hard as it might sound. There is no real trick to it. You think of something special, that you can relate to. It can be anything ... something or someone that made you laugh, feel/felt happy about, sad about; it can be something about yourself, how you feel personally, how you want things to be, etc.... whatever comes to mind. It is basically writing down your thought(s). Once you start writing, you will keep writing automatically. The words will just come and you will continue to write, grasping each word in a frenzy to capture them all, and before you know it you are filling a page or more. Sometimes it won't come easily. Then you leave it for awhile, then try it again. Practice! Find a peaceful, relaxing place, time and just sit with paper and pen in hand, close your eyes and let it happen. You don't have to be a believer in spirit guides, but I feel they are there helping you, guiding you to write. It is simply a matter of LISTENING to your thoughts.
More than once I have had a small idea for what I wanted to write about. One instance ... in a poem at the time, I started it yet fumbled around trying to find the right words. Before I knew it, the words did come but in a totally different direction ... a whole new concept was born, if you will. It turned into something very meaningful, about life and how we set our values. Certainly not the funny little something I had intended for an insert to my sister's birthday card ... LOL. All the same, I hope I have put my idea across. The key word .. FOCUS, but let it happen. Try to hard and you are going to miss the point, the boat, whatever it is you are trying to catch *smiles*.
Enjoy your writing. Be YOU! |
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