"Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"
Last night, I dreamed about words. I dreamed about the best way of saying/writing what I thought. I dreamed of the images invoked by these words. I dreamed that my words were out there, rather than in here... And I woke up so happy.
I know that it's because I spent a ridiculous amount of time reading yesterday, and that the book I was reading is written in a certain sort of way that twists language into something beautiful. But, nonetheless, even though I could not remember any of the words in my dream, nor how they fit together so wonderfully, I still feel like I'm back in the groove a bit.
My writer's unblocking plan hasn't been as successful as I would like - I haven't been taking that half hour every day, only a few times, and it was very forced - but I'm committed to sticking with it and making myself find those beautiful words from my dream, and recording them on paper...
Wrtier's Block Sucks
The only thing I've ever wanted was to be a writer. Now, I know that means I have to write... but unfortunately, I've been letting writers block get to me for far too long, and everything I write just seems like a piece of garbage. Even this blog.
Elster has so kindly
encouraged me (in the comments to his story, "The Below") and given me that infuriating (but necessary and true) advice to just plow through. So, I'm going to try. I have been trying. It all sounds terrible. It's just not my voice anymore. But I will keep going. I will make myself sit down and write for a pre-set period of time each day until I get over this. And then...I'll continue on that schedule. My biggest challenge is to keep all of the things I write even though they sound like crap. My instinct is always to just delete them all and pretend I've never written anything so embarrassing. But no more!
So, here's the plan:
1. Write every day - for at least a half hour. (I might increase this at some point, but we'll see.
2. Keep what I write.
Sounds simple enough, no? I hope it is... I really hope it is.
PS. On the Yahoo site, there was a notice that November is National Novel Writing Month, and the challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month - good luck to all who try it.
