Now that I have seen Melissa Gilbert’s blog I want to be a copycat and change my blog title to Jacquelyn’s Mid-life Musings, ha ha… not that anyone cares about what I have to say but…
It is just that this writing gets my creative juices flowing…my little musings and meanderings. The more I write the more I want to. I get restless with the desire to write but I don’t know what I want to write. I know I want to write about me…me, me, ME. I have several memoir ideas; the trouble is nobody cares about what I have to say…
But I also want to write fiction. Short stories and novels–well more so novels but I figure I should start writing some shorter stuff just so I can get in the habit of writing and rewriting….and rewriting again. That is easier to do with shorter works. I have written a few short stories…but somehow I don’t think I really have a handle on the form (not that I know how to write a novel either– I just like the novel format). I need to read more short stories I suppose. I have never been fond of them, preferring novels.
Perhaps that should be a resolution– to read more short stories. Read a short story a day…sounds like a plan. I would also like to write a short story a day but I am not sure I am up for it yet. Not energy wise any way. I don’t know. I should probably give it a try. Lord knows I have tons of ideas (which all hide or turn to shit when I get serious about them); if only I wouldn’t get bogged down with trying to think of original plotlines and characters forgetting that there is nothing new under the sun.
Read more/write more.
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