When I first started writing for fun it poured out of me. I wrote in journals in highs school and wrote poems to express my “complex emotions”. When I got to college I started working on fictional stories written in play format because I wanted to concentrate on dialogue. The characters were all loosely based on people in my life and it ended up being very male focused and while there were plenty of female characters they all ended up being used as plot tools as opposed to being characters in their own right. The writing wasn’t good. It also doesn’t reflect the person I am now but it FELT good to write it at the time.
It felt good to write in general.
Maybe it was the environment and the abundance of new and interesting people and experiences that college life allows. But afterwards I got a job, bills, and a life. Now I have a 9-5 that doesn’t change all that much day to day, I see the same people everyday and I don’t really feel like doing a bunch of random stuff. Most of the time I’m tired and just want to engage in couch based adventures. In someways that is helpful to writing. You have the time to do it at the end of the day and the physical act of typing doesn’t take too much energy. The problem is I’ve never felt compelled to put down the written word the way I did when I was 18 or 20.
That is why I started this project of writing “every” day. I’m hoping to find that spark again and I think I’m getting there I really do. Simply putting my thoughts down has been therapeutic and leading me to come up with ideas for stories, one of which will be long form I hope. So here’s the deal, I’m going to keep the long form stuff for the weekend when I have time to write it. I’ll write something every day but the stories I actually put some effort into will be up Saturdays and/or Sundays.
Thanks guys
The New Sage 