A Blog About Nothing

It seems that I find myself with a little space of time and the inclination to blog, though I’m not certain what to blog about. The thing of it is, I find myself once again on a reading fast - this time for only a week - and thus need some mechanism to take a bit of a brain break from my day job. Eating lunch only took eleven minutes and I didn’t bring my guitar today nor do I have an inclination to walk in the rain so blogging it is. Though I could try and work on an actual script or story or hey, even play a game on my iPhone but no. Why am I looking for a justification for blogging? Can it be that often it seems to me that so many blog about so little?

Well at least you were forewarned about this blog from its title. I suppose I could tell you why I am once again without reading or TV or movies for a week given that I recently did a month without fiction and it turned out to be unproductive writing wise in that I spent my reading time watching DIY TV and House Hunters International. Love to be on that show some day. Or better yet, Fantasy Homes by the Sea, that’s the program to be on for sure.

This time I am working through the Artist’s Way and it is turn off the fiction week in order to make yourself face some of the things in your life that you’ve been avoiding facing. This week is all about finding integrity. I have been working through this course in creativity for the first time in about twenty years and am daily surprised by how much I’m getting out of it the second time around. Just doing the Morning Pages (3 pages or 750 words of free association) daily has affected a great sea change.

I am doing more creative writing on a daily basis. Gone seems to be the great plans for huge uninterrupted writing sessions. I write whenever I have a little space to write. Still early days yet so time will have to tell if this shift in creative activity will result in more finished product but I have high hopes and those hopes seem to have a good basis in reality.

The other thing of note is that I’m feeling, in general, a lot better about myself than I have been of late. It’s been a bit of a rocky year on the self-esteem front. This is another positive turn of events that I am claiming is all to do with the Morning Pages. Something about getting the day’s whining out on paper before 7 AM seems to help keep it out of the rest of the day.