Where Is One's Writing Today?

So writing is a solitary thing? No, not always. And by paradigm shifts never basically. Writers form a tribal characteristic that in one way and another part of them, with and without people in the immediate vacinity. Okay and here is a setting; writer by self-naming oneself and giving a go at being an interpretation of what that means as being a writer, writer is with computer device, zeroes and ones in flashdrive, hard drive, somewhere and keyboard. Barely optional is the liquid machine that converts itself in cohorts with said writer as transformer/morphing of karma to words. The words by said coffee et al forms a characteristic that hinges on more is never enough and the frustrated satisfaction and glorifying and sensalizing has begun, alone with thousands of others like you globally, locally around the block, ... . You are in. It is a structure like, say pretending, Writers Anonymous; If one wants to live a clean life free of being non-generating, expressive, unique with others like you, have an excuse for being creative and/or eccentric, blah, yada, dot, dot, dot. You say you are a writer? Then you are one. You must hand in the ethics papers/forms with signature/initialization.

Where is your writing today? Maybe it is in your head? Making up a creative energy form means the next step, getting it down, is manifesting to a concrete and real form no matter the amount of fantasy, onto some such of substance, on a medium. Cheapest? A dollar journal and pen, maybe if freely available, a word processor app, on pdf, txt, what else .doc ? Go for it.

Maybe you have a box with basically random index cards of writers' brilliance caliber you are collecting? Stop making sense. Make a sentence, paragraph, chapter out of some. Go at it. You are the tiger that has tasted meat.

Maybe you have a first draft? Is it small and/or large some places to tell your story? It all comes down to one word; "Story." Quote Zimman. Remember when lessons were stories, stories having lessons? A reporting of how the day went to Mom was a story, sometimes true hopefully. Agaze at the stars produced myths and stories from the characters the stars sketched out by the figures formed with "outline" intact in one's mind. Oh, tribal, yes.

And what about the revisions, setting up an editor, an outsiders set of eyes, along with ... respective paradigm shift? Remember be free from rewriting the first twenty pages twenty times and turning it into "beige butter" absent of character so to speak. Here is where size matters; samurai sword to the excess and build a healthy body from the thin areas. Most first drafts are in excess, needing more cutting out. Others are more a laying down the skeletal bones of a framework and want some meat and potato mindset so to speak. Find the zone!

Good luck today.