May 03, 2003

Musings

I know, I know, I know. It's been over a week. It's been a bad habit of mine: a flurry of writing for a couple of days, then nothing. I wish I could explain it. Part of it is a lack of time, part of it is a sense of facing an infinite amount of nonsense with only finite resources to combat it. But, then again, no one's ever accused me of being overflowing with discipline and motivation, either.

So I bought a book: The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood. It's got lots of neat little inspirations and exercises and digressions designed to knock you into a rhythm and a sense of making your writing a serious part of your life. And I'm going to carry it with me and use it and internalize it.

And I'm going to refer to Kevin's post on writing to remind me that a real writer is never not writing. And maybe I'll tell everyone the ideas I have in my head for novels, and make them sound so great and so indispensable that I'll have no choice but to sit down and actually write 'em.

Oh, and my parents have a web site now!

Comments

Thanks for the plug!

Posted by: Vin at May 5, 2003 04:59 PM

Good for you, Michael. And thanks for mentioning that post. I wrote it in a fit of anger but it seems to have inspired more than one person. I'm touched.

Oh, and Monica Wood is great. I was fortunate to review her short story collection "Ernie's Ark" last year. A wonderful book I would highly recommend.

Posted by: Kevin at May 12, 2003 03:24 PM

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