For a while now I have been lacking what might be the most important thing in a writer's life, a spark of imagination. Its so easy to get distracted in life, what with tv, internet, radio, work and just general life. So often I read about writers and how writing is an almost religious experience. Writers spend hours just finding the right location, they stick to a steady schedule of writing, break and more writing.
I suppose it is easy for a writer who writes as their one profession, they can devote endless hours to preparing for writing, but I have little bits of time here and there with work and other things. It becomes a struggle to put thoughts together, to coordinate them. Its easy to become discouraged as well with a lack of other writers to work with. So many groups meet at times that are completely different from what I can attend. It seems like the whole writing world is on one schedule and level of life and I am on another that is the exact opposite.
I draw once again to my analogy of a train for this blog. At the moment, I am chugging along at a slow pace, regaining my momentum. Ahead lays a switchboard of opportunities, and I need to decide where I need to go and what I need to do to get there. There's plenty of room for mistakes, for chances taken or lost, but that's the way it is with any thing in life.
I think and hope that this blog will help me continue to flesh some of my own frustrations or thoughts about writing. I just have to remain on track!
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