I started writing this last fall … I haven’t followed through with the 300 Days challenge (perhaps it was a tad too challenging?) but I like this piece, so I’m posting it.
Fall is not a typical time to resolve to do things differently. It is much more a reflective, passive time to cull the unnecessary and non-essential and settle into winter’s dormancy. But I’m not one to do things just the way they ‘should’ be done, and I feel, in a strange way that this might be just the right time to renew my resolution to write almost every day and share those writings with others.
Every day I find inspiration to write in a number of instances, events and encounters. For instance today I was inspired by a conversation about holding back, an inability to find ‘regular’ tea bags at the worst grocery store in the US, and an acupuncture treatment that has left me cold (in a good way) the rest of the day.
I could spend all day every day just writing. I suspect that puts me on the path to writing as a vocation. Or, at least as a hard-core hobby. But, can I do it for at least 300 of the next 365 days? How do I get all this stuff out of my head and down on ‘paper’ (such as it is these days). And how do I decide what is worthy of writing and what is not?
Stories from the Edge 