Ink on a pen
Monday, 25 August 2008
The writing is coming back, bit by bit. I still don’t have anything whole to share yet, but there are dozens of fragments floating around, and new ones arriving with a greater frequency than before. As an experiment, I thought I’d open up the folder where all these pieces sit (separate documents for each attempt) and see if anything therein would spark inspiration, or perhaps give me a jumping-off point to continue an unfinished thought. Well. I hadn’t realized the sheer enormity of the aborted efforts. I provide a screenshot of what happens when all text files are opened at once, within the viewpoint of the “all windows” function of Mac OSX’s Exposé:
Um. Yeah. I have some work to do.
Damn, I have a bunch of saved Blogger drafts that I never finished, but I think you have me beat here.
Totally understand the whole feeling out of touch with writing thing though. These days I feel like I can hardly write anything actually worthwhile, and most posts get abandoned halfway through because I realize what I was writing was crap anyway. Not that I was ever actually good at this whole writing thing, but I did have a knack for writing overly melodramatic crap back then…
Posted by tanthalas | August 26, 2008 8:12 pmFor what it’s worth, I think you write very well, good sir. For recent reference, the last entry you put up in particular. I wish I’d written it myself.
I’m finding some measure of inspiration in reading well-written books, and several spectacular ones have crossed my path recently. Their voices burrow into my head; suddenly my thoughts start swirling around in the mixture, my voice and theirs, and every now and then a little something comes out that isn’t complete crap. It’s not a fool-proof method, but every bit helps.
Glad to see hear/see you around again.
Posted by littlepieceofyoursong | August 26, 2008 8:22 pm