Hello hello!

I'm no Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Faulkner, or god forbid Shakespeare. When I write it's usually at 2 am when I'm half drunk with sleep and the shadows are morphing into little creatures in the corners. It doesn't always make sense at the time I'm writing or it makes perfect sense until I read it again in the morning wondering what in the world I was talking about. Yet it's my writing all the same and breathing life into words is what I have always loved to do. These days writing has become slower and slower to come by. I never seem to have the time, energy, or inspiration to write....well...anything at all. Considering I never had a real method to writing to begin with I had no clue how to fix this. Was it even fixable? I decided to start this blog to see if there is a cure to this writer's block disease. Since I've never used any method when writing maybe I should try out some writing methods to see if they can work for me.

Basically, a self-exile into writing.

Maybe I'll discover that all I needed was to be forced into my mind again to drag my inspiration out kicking and screaming so I can chain it to the page. Or maybe I'll find out inspiration can't be forced otherwise your writing will end up resenting you, boycotting the page picket signs and all. Either way, I need to see if there really is a method to the madness of writing. Or if the method is there is none at all.

First assignment: a friend of mine told me that her aunt, a creative writing teacher, often asks her students to choose a piece of music to listen to and then write whatever the music brings to mind to turn into a creative writing piece. I decided that was an easy enough place to start.

I chose this live performance of "Concrete Wall" by Zee Avi
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I think it's so beautiful on its own but it will be interesting to see if I can bring my own work out of hers. Here's to hoping this works...or is at least a good start.

Until next time.