This Blog is going under renovation. Right now! This very moment!
From today forward, Life's Casual Observer Blog is forevermore my writing blog. I will create a new blog for In Life Art Studio that will showcase my art, provide thoughts on the art process, and present random writings about art in general.
As a youth and young adult, I loved to write poetry. As I've grown older, life writing and fiction have become my devices for expression. I love to write.
These past several months, I have started writing three different stories (Yes, three). Taking advice from published authors, I know that writing every day is critical to improvement, but even more so is reading volumes upon volumes of books. Reading; however, has become somewhat more difficult lately. I will be reading along in one of the three books I'm reading (there might be a pattern here) and suddenly have an idea for one of my own stories slap me in the face so hard, that I have to write the idea down immediately. Needless to say, I'm not making a lot of progress in my reading.
My daughter, Shenandoah, and I went to the public library recently. I had no intention of checking out a single book, as I was already reading three. Books just seemed to jump off the library shelves into my arms and I departed with 8 volumes of various genres! How many have I read? Half of one book. I now have a library fine due to the 8 volumes collecting dust on the piano in my living room. I do have great intentions, but suck at follow through.
I keep thinking that I need to focus on one story, but the ideas come randomly and one idea leads to another for a totally different story. I find it impossible to focus on writing only one story, just as I find it hard to focus on reading only one book. Such a dilemma. But, one I am happy to have.
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