Saturday, June 27, 2009

An Amazing Discovery!

It's been as if I've been suffering from a dark illness that has slowly devoured a part of my spirit. The banishment of my muse. I'd become deaf to my characters and their stories. Why did I do this to myself and allow a void to grow within that filled with darkness and sorrow?

My worker at Vocational Rehabilitation told me that they did not believe that writing was a profitable career for me to choose. That it was a hobby at best and that I should consider more realistic business models. Foolishly I listened to them, regretfully I set aside my dreams to create a respectable business that I could do from home.

But I have made a choice to follow my dreams once more and to release the stories that fill my mind. My muse has returned and she's rejoicing. I have returned to my first passion and love, writing. Never will I be told that it is a wasteful hobby, worthless scribblings of no value...

If I wrote for the goal of profit alone, I would not be a true writer. It is a stirring deep within, an urge to create something out of nothing. To paint fantastic worlds and vistas with words. To inspire, to weave a spell so complete as to make a character real...so real that you feel with them. To cry, laugh and share with them the adventure of their life...

There is something more satisfying in the process and completion, worth far more than just money. If making money was the only reward, there would be far less writers in the world.

Eagerly I await the day that I can share my stories with others and introduce them to the characters I've come to know so very well. It is the pleasure of this and more that I continue to strive forward, typing away with joy in my heart once more.

Everyone holds a story or more within them, if the desire is there choose to write it down. If only to preserve the wonderful stories of your own life adventure for your children or grandchildren and future generations to come. A living history of what you experienced, learned and how things changed. What a wonderful gift to pass on over the years, expanding upon the stories as each generation adds their own tales. It's such a shame that so many stories are lost and left to be forgotten when we pass on. Special family recipes, secrets and memories treasured forever in a bound book.

The way I see it anyone can write...be it poetry, short stories or long novels. Anyone can write and everyone should think of writing. If only to preserve the past today, for tomorrow.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

A Lost Treasure for Me!

I was clearing up and packing up due to needing more room again. I came across something I'd thought I'd lost ages ago. My box with all my writing! Notebooks, folders stuffed and envelopes with clippings - everything!
Well, maybe not everything, but a whole heck of a lot of my writing was in there. So for me that was like finding a lost treasure! A writer's jackpot filled with memories! Mostly because such a large part of me went into all that writing. Plus now I can actually put a bunch of it together and start polishing up a piece here and there. Start uploading some and seeing about getting some published maybe.

So that was a really great find for me. Granted I've still got more stuff to send off to the storage unit in the next few weeks. Come to think of it, I am going to have to start planning a yard sale to:

1. get rid of stuff that I no longer need or want
2. get some extra cash to save up for an emergency
3. make some more room in the storage unit and the house.

I may just call someone to haul off whatever doesn't sell. One of those people that buy up the left over yard sale stuff to go sell at the flea market. I can't get there myself - so why not load off the stuff on someone who's already going out anyway...

Finally found the other A/C unit - need to get it set up tomorrow. Then maybe things will cool off a bit in the house. It's been so muggy lately that the heat's almost impossible to deal with. Have one A/C already in and cooling, but with the size of the house it's going to take two to handle this heat.

Well, that's all for now. Been feeling a bit better since the pool's up and I've been taking some time out to swim. Just have to make sure that I don't get too "busy" and forget to go out. So far it's not been so hard...but if I start getting wrapped up in stuff I may need the kids to drag me out for a while to take that swimming break. lol

Hope that everyone enjoy the changes ahead - it's either that or be grumpy about them. Think I'll try to roll with things...I'm to hot to gripe about anything right now...lol 

That doesn't mean I won't later though...lol