A Writer's Notebook, Day Two-Hundred-And-Thirty-Nine

I think that the efforts I am making in terms of changing my attitude about certain things is starting to make a difference.  Certain choices that I made tonight felt like they were in the right direction, and the fact that I feel positive about making those decisions is reinforcing the shift in thinking that led to this new behavior.  Anyhow, it feels as if I am moving forwards towards being more the kind of person that I want to be.

Writing is also going quite well.  I've got a bunch of poems that I think are actually ready to get out there, and I need to start submitting them.  I am hoping that will also give me a boost in terms of getting my other work out there.  My novel has a great deal of merit, certainly, but I also recognize that it may be easier if I have a bit of credit already established, even if it is as a poet.

In any event, I wrote three or four new pieces today, and am rather happy with some of what I produced.  I am finding that I can really push myself now, in terms of just making the choice that I need to get to work at any moment.  It is largely knowing that once I say I am going to work, I actually will do it, and won't just slack off.  If I sit at the keyboard, I am committing to doing the work, and I seem to have trained that part of my brain to know that.  I am at the point where, if I sit a few minutes with commitment to getting to writing, something will start.

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