After a frazzling start to the year, I am ready to spend the rest of my days baking cookies and sewing. It won’t matter that the cookies I bake may not turn out (to be cookies) or that the product of my labour of love with needle and thread will be mainly buttons and perhaps, if courage should arise within, a handkerchief.
I think I would like to spend the next few months not running around and being quiet. In fact, I sense the call of the wild within (and without, thanks to our mongrel pooch )to return to the writing life – not that I had much of one, but, sigh, one can be inventive.
Incidentally, I found this portion of a lengthy article entitled “The best advice for writers?” , quite amusing. It should make your dinner in your contented tummy do acrobatic tricks of sorts:
“Once a commitment to writing is made it can be a long time before a person starts writing anything of quality and, as a consequence, young writers often spend years escaping into other people’s fiction in lieu of writing themselves. Then, magically, they might develop a talent for expressing their ideas in language; their ideas might not be any good, but the practice of constructing sentences around those ideas becomes far less painful. At this point, a writer might start writing more and more each day, and reading a little less.”
Painful is THE word to describe my efforts at writing – book reviews, movie reviews, THIS blog- for the past few years. I suppose this is what they call “writers’ block”. Or “writers’ edifice” in my case.
For instance, at this very moment I am supposed to finish a book review of a wonderful book, and send it to my editor before the end of next week, and here I am – here, doing this, and not focusing on what I should be doing. In short, I am distracted. In approximately 1 hour and 27 minutes , my whole lot of happiness will come chugging home joyfully in the car, thinking that mom has completed her work and will be free to enjoy the week end with her beloveds.
I think I just reminded myself to stay on task. Well, read the rest of the advice to writers here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/mar/02/best-advice-writers-read#start-of-comments
Ta. da.
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