the prompt: We want to know what your goals and ambitions are for your writing, in 300 words or less. A long time ago, I used to make up stories. Write them down and sometimes illustrate them.
I took creative writing in high school. Even a poetry class. I wrote. I have little journal books of crappy teen angst poems. The stories I wrote? I don't know where they are. Long decomposed in some landfill I expect.
It all got lost. In growing up and boys and work. Then motherhood and marriage. Yes the mommy part came first.
The stories were still there. Locked in my head. Told and retold to the invisible passenger as I drove my intergalactic fighter or horse drawn cart to work or the grocery.
Pieces of elsetime. Glimpses of otherwhen.
I can remember my mother telling me long ago she could see me at a typewriter, mixed drink in one hand, cigarette in the other, cranking out books.
Didn't happen.
Yet.
But I have taken a step. Sitting in front of a keyboard, coffee mug in one hand, cigarette in the other. Learning how to pull pieces and glimpses of elsetime and otherwhen out of my head and put them together.
Telling those stories. Flying my magic carpet through the Internet, babbling away to You, my invisible passengers.
My Goal?
Simple.
Don't stop.
And please never do, I would miss much those glimpses. I loved this Renee, I thought it was beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. I'm really going to try to keep.it together.
DeleteI had a similar writing path as you.I wrote then I stopped. Picked it up again and stopped.
ReplyDeleteI hope this last leg will be the one to reach that finish line :) Good luck in accomplishing your goals.
I'm hoping. Sometimes I get discouraged, then throw myself back in front of the keyboard and start again.
DeleteHuzzah!
ReplyDeleteThat's good? Right? ;-)
DeleteThat's the best goal of all!
ReplyDelete"Pieces of elsetime. Glimpses of otherwhen." Love it!
Thanks. Those words in my blog title have been in my head for many, many years. They've been with me long before the internets were born.
DeleteSounds like your writing life is leaving you a breadcrumb trail to follow. Keep following it, please!
ReplyDeleteThank you, I think I will. If I didn't I just know I'd miss something good.
DeletePlease don't stop :)
ReplyDeleteThis? Is the important part:
"Didn't happen.
Yet."
Thank you! I keep my eyes on that yet. One day I'll put it behind me.
DeleteIn some ways you're already there - you're writing. Perhaps the specific format isn't quite the same as your mother envisioned, but you're writing. Keep going and you'll complete that last part. I look forward to seeing you do so!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
DeleteIn some ways I'm there, I try to keep writing. So maybe. Maybe someday I'llget to that book part. :-)