A Writer's Notebook, Day Two-Hundred-And-Sixty-Three

fThis week has been quite long, with many ups and downs.  Honestly, last Monday I thought things were settled and that I was ready to make some major and positive changes, but then got some information that completely changed things in a way that was quite upsetting.  I have attempted to get past a lot of that, but it has been a difficult thing.  I have to get back into a different state of mind, and I am beginning to understand that more fully.  Honestly, I am not sure how to get there at the moment.

One thing, though, that I am doing, which I fceel quite glad for, is remaining consistent in my work.  I drafted three complete pieces, and started work on a fourth that remains unfinished at present but which, I think, has a great deal of potential, though I am attempting to really understand it more fully right at the moment.  It is a piece that is about identity and family and a lot of other questions seem to be important for it, in my mind, but I am not certain how to get where I think I am going, but I may be heading to a new destination.  In writing, a work always can teach the way it wants to exist, or change it's way of being in the world at a certain point.  This does not mean that the work is jarring or seems half cooked, but rather that the writer is open in their mind to the sense that something new might be occurring.

All that is to say that I stopped writing the piece in order that I might get a fresh perspective and be open to the possibilities of that work.  It began with a certain concept in my head, and it may be a different thing now, which is actually great, as it means I still have that first idea in a way, though it will have to change too, in some sense.  Along with that original idea, I'll still have, of course, the second idea, in the new piece, and thus it is like a two for one bonus on inspiration.  I just need a new setup for the other idea, one that starts off a bit different than the original, but is still that same concept at it's heart.  I am hoping that tomorrow morning, I'll be able get the half poem completed.

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