June 8, 2012

Today, I have to write.  I have to write more than just this journal entry.  I have to do it because even after a few days of not writing, the willingness to do so is dissipating.  I am not feeling good about the efforts of the last few days.  I know that if I don’t write, I won’t write.  And so, I will write.  And I will try follow a piece of advice I read the other day…finish what you write.  I have a few stories on the go, and although I won’t finish them all, I’d like to get one finished and put up under my Story Spinner.  I really hope to have that up for reading by the end of the weekend.  And so, I will put on some tunes, put up my feet, have a shot of bourbon and write.  At least, that’s the plan.

FF

June 5, 2012

100 words, huh?  Does it double because I missed last night?  Hey, I make the rules and I re-define the rules.  I don’t break them…I re-define them to suit my own purposes.   And yes I can do that.  I write this stuff after all.  And so, here I am again, writing an entry in my journal.  I don’t have much to say tonight, except that I will be working on another amazing story.  The only difference is that the story I am going to write is a true story…a follow up story.  I am not going to give too much away, for I want it to be a bit of a surprise.  And I have no idea how to write it.  But that’s ok.  Time is on my side.  I just decided.  I re-defined the rules.  Again.

FF

June 3, 2012

Tonight, I have zero ambition.  I have zero inspiration.  I have zero desire to write.  And yet, I write.  I will struggle to get my 100 words down and posted.  I will struggle to find something meaningful to say.  But I will do it.  There has been nothing in the tank today, and I don’t know why.  It doesn’t concern me, however.  It is only one day.  I am sure that all writers have days like this.   Funny enough, I have days like this, and I’m just a wannabe.  Tomorrow will be a lax day for scribing as well…work all day and a meeting at night.  Hopefully a journal entry will happen when I get home from the meeting.  Yup, there’s nothing here.  But I beat my 100 word limit.  And so I’m done.

FF

June 2, 2012

I am writing this entry in the mid afternoon of today.  Why?  Because I want to.  And I don't know how much time I will have tonight when we get home from the BBQ.  So if I don't have time for journal writing, that means I most likely won't have time for working on any stories.  But I am writing.  In my last entry, I talked about zones, and where to find my muse.  Not much has changed...I still have no answers.  But I do know that music, certain music, will fire the creative guns.  So, what I need to do is create a playlist in iTunes that I can plug into when I want to write.  And when I find songs that move me, I can just add them to a playlist.  I already know that different music suits different moods, which equates to different styles of writing.  If I write dark stories, there will be music for that.  If I write a piece based more on emotion and love, there will be music for that.  And so, this fits in nicely with my goal of focusing on the zones.  Without the zones, I fear my writing will be worse than usual.  And so, I continue to search...and listen...and write.

FF

June 1, 2012

Ok, theoretically this journal entry is being written on the 2^nd, but I am going to count it on the 1st.  It is really early in the morning…almost my bedtime.  I haven’t had any time to write until now, so I figured I had better get my 100 words down.  So let’s talk zones.  I need to be in a certain zone in order to write, and the thing I thought about earlier today was this:  how do I get into the zone where I can really put some good stuff down?  I am not sure, and that frustrates me.  So, my goal for the next little while is to really focus on that issue.  What am I doing, what is stimulating me when I get into the zone that helps me to write.  And I will document it all, not for public consumption, but for my own use.  I think it is obvious from this entry that I am not in the zone.  Nope, nothing to document here.

FF