You know, life is short and there are all sorts of things that need to be done. I can't help but feel like I am quickly running out of time. Decisions need to be made. Yet this does not allow creativity to flow like I would really like it to. It really is frustrating for me at times like this.
Scheduling is not very condusive to the nature of creative flow. There is always something like a job or laundry or even cooking that gets in the way. These days, I'm finding it difficult to balance this stuff. Mostly because of a thing called a job. It's not specifically this job, it's just any job.
Times like this allow me to live in a place where I just want to throw caution to the wind and just end my relationship with full-time and stable employment. Up until now, I've been lucky to have loads of people with the common sense gene to pull me back into reality. Unfortunately, these days there are also those who allow me to drift off into the ether of artistic expression that suppresses my desire to make a proper living. It's a dangerous time for me. Why? Because when I open that box, I'm damned sure that I'll be unable to slam the lid down again. All the control in the world won't be able to stop it.
Hmmm. These thoughts sound like my brain right now. Full of fantasy thoughts - some dream-like and others just naughty. What's a girl to do?
Needless to say I've been wrestling with some personal demons this week and fortunately that has awakened my desire to write. After all, I can do no worse than some of the people out there who've had thing published...
That said, I'm not sure that this will mean increased posting activity. Probably not. It might be focussed into literary form and it might be this week that I attempt - once again - to write that book that is trying to break out from behind the shroud of safety.
Scheduling is not very condusive to the nature of creative flow. There is always something like a job or laundry or even cooking that gets in the way. These days, I'm finding it difficult to balance this stuff. Mostly because of a thing called a job. It's not specifically this job, it's just any job.
Times like this allow me to live in a place where I just want to throw caution to the wind and just end my relationship with full-time and stable employment. Up until now, I've been lucky to have loads of people with the common sense gene to pull me back into reality. Unfortunately, these days there are also those who allow me to drift off into the ether of artistic expression that suppresses my desire to make a proper living. It's a dangerous time for me. Why? Because when I open that box, I'm damned sure that I'll be unable to slam the lid down again. All the control in the world won't be able to stop it.
Hmmm. These thoughts sound like my brain right now. Full of fantasy thoughts - some dream-like and others just naughty. What's a girl to do?
Needless to say I've been wrestling with some personal demons this week and fortunately that has awakened my desire to write. After all, I can do no worse than some of the people out there who've had thing published...
That said, I'm not sure that this will mean increased posting activity. Probably not. It might be focussed into literary form and it might be this week that I attempt - once again - to write that book that is trying to break out from behind the shroud of safety.
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Oh Lola, must you remind me of the daily grind?? :-) I feel the same. There just isn't enough time to do anything it seems. During the week I only get a few hours before bedtime... and reading takes up most of it sometimes, but which is great.
My friend and I promised to do more art related activities... We shall see. I'll be meeting her for breakfast tomorrow. It's a start.
Hope you finish your book soon! :-) Hope you have a fantastic [and productive] weekend!
Thank you Robert. This weekend, I'll be finishing the book "Dandy in the Underworld" so that I can continue to be amused. I'm beginning to think that there's something wrong with me.
Why?
Because I'm finding this guy's life story really amusing despite his faux misogynism as well as his blantant self-promotion. It's funny how nonsense can make so much sense, sometimes.
In a sense, this guy seems free yet I can also see parallels between his ramblings and the stuff that goes on in my head.
Perhaps that's why I'm feeling so inspired. And so unwilling to curb what I say in the name of political correctness...
So, yeah, bring on the weekend! I'm all ready for it!
Cheers to you Robert. Perhaps I'll jot down some of my ideas for kick-starting creativity to the north of you and send them by post!
See, finishing a book is uber productive! I have them piled-high on my nightstand! bleh! So this weekend my friend Bridie and I met up and since she has a 2yo boy [same birthday as me! awh!], we decided to head out to the LA Zoo! It was so much fun to see him run! That alone was worth the trip. This is the friend who got me into photography again. She bought her camera a few years back and her first lens was a wide angle. I borrowed it from her this weekend and am planning on buying it from her. She needs the $$ to get a more bitchin' lens! She's into kids portraits now!
Oh I should've just written you an email. I'm in class right this moment, taking an Adobe In-Design course... and they have internet here which isn't blocked unlike my work! :-) So here I am, typing away! woohoo!
At any rate, I have a NEED to be productive these days. I just do [cuz I think my time is running out! waaaa!] :-/
I DID IT!
I actually finished the book! And, I've started a new one about fear and risk! That's one good thing about library books... one at least has a deadline for finishing.
Oh Lola, I hear you. Boy do I hear you.
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