I feel with the end of the year approaching and a blessed new one on the horizon the annual assessment of my progress in life this year is due and the first thing that presents itself for evaluation is my desire to write.
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world"
Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist. I remember learning about him and Ralph Waldo Emerson and David Thoreau, all men who wrote well and made me want to embrace my life. I felt most alive reading their works and imagined being an adult and writing as a living, somehow infusing society with my words and making a positive difference.
All my writings so far have been anectdotal, complaining, and blog-ish.
I have made a few attempts at pure pose, some fiction, even less poetry, and nothing outright publish worthy. Beyond my memoirs, my writing has been extremely leisurely and a vagary of sorts. In light of recent events, all of my writing from youth to 2008 was lost including original drafts of my first novel The Stepsister Trilogy and the musical I wrote in fifth grade. For years, I could have put all my writing into electronic format, and some of it was on my old computer, but those files have been lost as well. I was proud of my pieces and stood on them for years as proof that I could write well. However, I did not pursue anything more than those pieces.
That can change.
I have been offered an opportunity to write for a good friend of mine. Just an article, but something real. My skills as a writer are not fading, they are simply dormant. So I look forward to moving forward with my passion and once again being able to present recent work that I am proud of.
Since its almost four in the morning, and I ust barely managed to pull myself away from youtube and haven't yet downloaded another free pc game trial, and I am ignoring the frisky feelings because I can't share them with who I want, I am going to continue exploring and reviewing the year at another time and go to sleep. The next topic worth reflecting on will be my self-image and self-care.
To all four of you reading, good night, and leave a comment! :)
No comments:
Post a Comment