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Write Every Day: 06 August 02019
Aug. 6th, 2019 09:59 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 06 August 02019.
I'm sure I had a story for today. It probably had to do with using your own life experiences to write detail and flavor and life into your stories. I haven't read any Toni Morrison, but from the way that social media reacted to the news of her death today, I suspect a great many more people have and what they read helped to change their lives.
Truthfully, though, I'm mostly feeling salt. Because small and petty things will get to you much more easily than the big things that you can't actually do anything about individually, unless someone hands you a lever and points where the fulcrum is. If I were a scorekeeper, that would probably let me go off tit-for-tat on that person, but it wouldn't actually be productive to do it, nor would it induce any sort of change in them. So instead, here I am, in the middle of the Great Salt Flat, trying to evoke a completely different mood for a piece that I'm trying to write.
I did make a few paragraph's worth of progress on that assignment, anyway, so there's words. And it's not due for a while, so I don't have to feel like I have to make great strides and such. As it is, it was close to the necessary wordcount where I hit a point that might be a stopping space, but there's probably one more scene that needs doing to get it over wordcount and to show the other part of the relationship that I haven't been paying attention to. It won't make things better, or even understandable, but it will make them more complete.
( It's tally time! )
I'm sure I had a story for today. It probably had to do with using your own life experiences to write detail and flavor and life into your stories. I haven't read any Toni Morrison, but from the way that social media reacted to the news of her death today, I suspect a great many more people have and what they read helped to change their lives.
Truthfully, though, I'm mostly feeling salt. Because small and petty things will get to you much more easily than the big things that you can't actually do anything about individually, unless someone hands you a lever and points where the fulcrum is. If I were a scorekeeper, that would probably let me go off tit-for-tat on that person, but it wouldn't actually be productive to do it, nor would it induce any sort of change in them. So instead, here I am, in the middle of the Great Salt Flat, trying to evoke a completely different mood for a piece that I'm trying to write.
I did make a few paragraph's worth of progress on that assignment, anyway, so there's words. And it's not due for a while, so I don't have to feel like I have to make great strides and such. As it is, it was close to the necessary wordcount where I hit a point that might be a stopping space, but there's probably one more scene that needs doing to get it over wordcount and to show the other part of the relationship that I haven't been paying attention to. It won't make things better, or even understandable, but it will make them more complete.
( It's tally time! )
