I would like to apologize for my silence this week. I've been trying to get in as much study time as possible before the next semester begins. Though, I suppose the real reason that I have been so quiet is that I am working on a series of essays for various applications and suffering from a terrible case of writer's block. After so many years of academic writing, I am finding short personal pieces to be a real challenge. It took a long time for me to learn to 'write myself out' of my essays. Now to write myself into them is difficult. I know that I have stories to tell, but the first line is always the hardest. If anyone has any good writing prompts, send them this way! Please!
This evening I am off for a couple of days to support my lovely friend, Ali, as she completes an 11 mile solo swim. Madness, I know. But, since she always supports my crazy goals, the least I can do is make up there for to be her and try best to be a cheerleader. Let's hope for good weather or at least nothing appalling...
I'll be back Sunday with photos to share.
much love
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The writing thing is quite hard, isn't it? I've found that just having someone who can give you that prompt—who can say "Hey, tell me about the time you first realized you wanted to be a writer" or "Hey, tell me about your first memory and what that says about you," things like that, that that helps. Because if I am telling the story of whatever it is in narrative form, very simply—"well, first X happened, then Y, and then so-and-so said..." it'll morph into telling the story to telling the story , if you see what I mean.
Still, though, hard. The hardest thing for me, too, is just finding the time to write!
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