Third day and you’re probably doing just fine. Personally I am really starting to regret my decision as I now realize that I am going to either fail the challenge completely by not delivering or I am going to have a very public break down after yet another sleepless night followed by a warm, sunny day. It’s been like this for a couple of weeks and I can really feel how it is affecting me. I am so tired today, but it’s no point even attempting to get some sleep in my sauna-hot room. I might aswell make a fool of myself in blog form as try to sleep. Both will end in the same kind of headache anyway, I really, really tried sleeping this time, but the Hobbit just isn’t a very sleep friendly movie, and no way I could sleep through the beginning of the beginning of The battle of the five armies, that was too epic…
Managing the one thousand word challenge does take some time every day. Even if you’re a really good writer and the words just flow from your fingers like water from an open tap it does take some time to make them one thousand. Especially if you want them to come together and make some kind of sense. From time to time it might happen that there are no words to be found anywhere. The important thing is to not get desperate thinking it’s taking up too much of your precious time when you really should be doing something more important. Like sleeping.
The words are out there. And you can find them if you stop that panic from taking over, if you relax and just let the fingers find them on your keyboard. I think writing can be viewed as a form of meditation where you free your mind from stress and time and all other things than the fact that right now, just then, you are doing something you love to do, in a slightly different way because you have chosen to test your ability to produce written texts. That must be a wonderful sentence to read. Line after line it just keeps going. Maybe not exactly how it should be done, but I did it.
Managing the blog is a different story. How can my ramblings in an extreme format be interesting for anybody. Everybody who know and writes about how to blog keeps stressing the importance of having a specific topic. Find something you are good at and interested in and blog about that. That has always been a problem for me because there isn’t just one thing I am interested in, there are too many things to even think about. Most of them have to do with some form of creativity though. Except my love for animals, I don’t create them. Finding something I’m good at is another problem. I know a little about a lot, but nothing is enough to be blogging about to keep readers interested. My first blog was about trying the blog thing. Most posts were very random and the topic of that blog was all over. I did try to investigate the blogging thing to teach myself while telling others about what I found out. Learning by doing is a very normal thing for me. Never check the instructions until you’re stuck and it might be too late. But That's how I do…
Maybe writing about writing except I am not really that skilled in the skill to write about it. I write, but I don’t know that much about it. I just write because it’s a need I have. It’s the way I express myself the best. Don’t get me wrong, I can talk too. Some think I talk too much. Just not on Skype, Mumble or Teamspeak. Come to think of it I am not really that fond of talking on the phone either. Hour long conversations do happen, though. But I wasn’t talking about talking, I was talking about writing about writing. (This is what happens in my sleep deprived brain, detours and other crazy talk).
As I think about crazy talk and derailing a train of thought I look out of my window and notice the clouds covering the sky and I feel the breeze getting cooler. Maybe it is time for me to put this thousand word blog to rest for a while and rest for a while. I can smell fresh cut grass, one of those wonderful scents of summer that are so amazing you just have to stop and breathe. Take it all in. I think about the summer, the colors, the green grass of home. A soft breeze, the warm sun, the smell of grass and the distant laughter of children playing. The sky is blue, the sun is yellow and in a few days the flagpoles will flying the blue and yellow flag for the queen's name day. The birch trees with their white and black trunk and luscious green leafiness surrounding the red cottage with white corners. Sound of waves breaking on the bare cliffs. The idyllic image of Swedish summer.
Writing exercises could work perfectly for this type of challenge if you really want to get into writing. I have tried some exercises and I have used the challenge to go over why writing is important to me, they I write and what I want to do with it. Do I want it to go somewhere or am I happy as I am. What is it I want to write. Since I now do this in a blog created especially for this purpose I think blogging was the answer. Not the next great novel or collection of poetry. I’m blogging it instead. I have tried a few exercises too, but I am not sure if it works well for a blog. The way you write a blog and the way you write a story are to a point similar but beyond that point it’s very different. And to be honest I am way to tired to even remember where I was going with the sentence I wrote less than a minute ago. I am so tired I am falling asleep typing. And...
I have reached and passed the goal of one thousand. So I will end this post here and continue tomorrow.
If you made it this far….
Many thanks and I wish you a wonderful day!!!
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