Slowly starting up again
It is, no doubt, of no concern to anyone but me and a few handsful of people who read what I write but it’s been a few months now that I haven’t written anything but blog posts. I’ve had these periods of inactivity during my whole writing life, so they don’t worry me, per se. With me it’s never writers’ block: It’s sheer laziness.
Still, it’s always nice to feel these dry periods coming to an end. Yesterday, I started jotting down the old but very familiar odd notes again. My more active periods always start like that – as if that probing part of the brain slowly & hiccupy starts to wake up again, like an old generator that’s been hiding out in the shed. Not immediately all buzzing and revving and generating real heat but getting there…
… and that feels just fine. Good enough to share some of those jottings here with you. Some may want to become poems; others could be short story fodder. Maybe none will make it anywhere in any still recognizable form but it’s good to see some shapes starting to form. Anyway, here goes.
Call it small change – or early bird shadows:
1) A candidate’s prayer: “I want to be it: I don’t want to work it.”
2) You cannot love some works of art; only admire them.”
3) [It's getting dark now and I'm] still vaguely sober.
4) There’s no divorce from life but many seek a separation.
5) It’s called a belief system for two very good reasons.
6) The headlines scream ‘We need some anwers!’ but most questions are much better at posing.
I know. It ain’t much yet but it’s a start…
(Every day? Well, perhaps not quite like that…)
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