Life has been crazy. Life has been great. Life has left little time for writing. Writing is something I love. Writing brings me joy. Writing has become something frantically pounded out on the keyboard whenever I get a free minute. It happens after everything else is done, when I am tired and burned out.
But not this year. Nope. It’s time to make writing fun again. It’s time to get back the reason I began writing in the first place. I started by making a video look book for the story I’m currently working on. It was dead in the water and I needed something to get me back into it. It took me a whole Saturday to make this video and I will get absolutely no reward from it except the act of creating it. I used to create for pleasure all the time when I was a kid. Lately, I have forgotten how.
I encourage all creatives to create for the joy of creating with no expectation of what will happen to the end result. Only then will it be fun and only then will it be authentic and good. Forget about marketing and reviews and sales. Do it for yourself!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
When was the last time you did something creative just for fun?
What is your favorite creative outlet?
What are you working on this year?
Hey, Christa! Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for a while.
I’m glad you made the video. I know what it’s like to lose steam on a project. The video makes me excited for the book!
(BTW, I’m not done with Sick III yet, but I should be soon.)
This year I’m still hoping to finish Presumption of Darkness. I think I pushed out a few chapters while you were in Asia. I do hope you’ll get a chance to catch up. (Did you get a chance to read Mstislav on the plane?)
Anyway, for fun I’m going to try and write a dark and somewhat perverse Dr. Seuss style poem. Not sure when it will happen, but I think it will be good to get some levity in my writing. P of D is dark and seems to be getting darker. And, at the same time, it seems weirdly upbeat and positive. I feel like it shuffles back and forth in perspective. It’s one of the weirdest things I’ve written in a long time.
Hello Thomas! Great to hear from you. I have been gone from the face of the Earth too. It seems like I was on the move all year. I can’t wait to catch up with you and on The P of D. I’m really interested in this perverse Dr. Seuss. I will be in touch!
WOW! I can’t WAIT to read this one, especially to see how close I am to guessing what it’s about after watching this video.
It probably seems like nonsense, but there is a theme here, lol.