A different current in improving writing:
The wind blows gently on my neck through the open window space behind me.
With a little bad conscience shadowing my self I had to admit I have failed regarding the goal to write everyday for 365 days. It’s a goal I’ve set for myself and myself only. Which doesn’t make it any easier to let it go.
How come? So first and foremost I love to spend some day not touching a Computer, Laptop or sometimes even take a day off my phone. It gives me a certain calm of mind and mostly a push of creativity through resting and recovering. Does that mean I don’t write anything? Mostly not. As much as the idea of putting something out there everyday appeals to me, it simply doesn’t resonate in reality. At least not in this phase of my being. I felt a certain burden over me at some days.
When I’m interested in something I wanna start to engage in it. Being interested in different kinds of Art, Photography being my first and foremost passion, I learned to reach out to people who are way more experienced and ask them for advice. Which, in terms of writing, is an opportunity I already got granted with talking to my friend and Author Daniel Allison.
Daniel is an incredible Storyteller and Writer. He was kind and offered me his support on this journey. When we sat down, having Coffee, we spoke about the process of writing. He helped me question my writing style and more importantly how to actually find my style in writing.
One of his suggestions was to think about what I want to say, to give my poems and stories some kind of place to go. Which I find is something quite hard for me to do. It is easy to start somewhere. There is always an idea popping up somewhere in the mists of my monkey mind. As thoughts flow it feels easy to write them down, arrange the words in a sense that it sounds appealing, but very hard to drive them to a certain destination.
Another recommendation of his was that I might wanna try to write longer pieces.
As with recommendations, you always have the option to adopt or repudiate. Coming at it with an open mind and, of course, appreciative of any help, I didn’t do neither but rather kept on writing while contemplating this thoughts on either I should adopt or dismiss. Don’t get me wrong, the thought of dismissal is in no way a disdain of Daniel’s advices. It simple stirred the thought that maybe, I wasn’t going for longer stories. I love to write short poems. Random words assembled by whatever comes to my through some higher consciousness. And who knows, maybe they don’t have to have a certain destination in means of an ending in each of them. I do see them more as a puzzle forming a bigger picture that will end up eventually as something whole. But the thing is, you can’t force them. They will come up when they feel like.
Neither the less, what I really found interesting in writing every day is that, to my surprise, something always popped up. Which is fascinating. I’m by no means a religious person. Only maybe if you count all kinds of Spiritualism as religious endeavor. But as I went through my morning routine, waking up, making Coffee, reading whatever Book I’m reading at the moment, always after meditating words just seemed to trickle down from the “heavens” for the lack of a better word.
So why did I fail after 32 days of swimming in heavens creative swamp? Because I wanna take Daniel’s advice and build some longer pieces through, gathered through some days before I post them on this lovely Website (referring to Substack). So I won’t stop writing everyday, if something is still revealing itself everyday, but rather learn how to form and structure then post a piece once a Week. Probably on Sunday, but don’t nail my word on that.
Writing this, I already get excited to share this next progression with you all.
