This site serves for all of the different kinds of writing that I do:
the stuff for corporate clients (and I’m thankful for those cuz they do pay my bills);
and the stuff for myself (and that’s the kind of writing that involves my heart, not my bank account), the non-fiction and fiction that keeps me up too late at night.
It’s hard to generalize, when one day I might be writing copy for a caterer’s website and the next I’m making a character sketch for a novel, but here are some of the things that I like about Writing:
- the way that words string out across a page or the soft, rhythmic clicking of keys
- discovering a character’s name
- researching something about which I know nothing…and discovering it’s actually really, really interesting
- choosing fresh pens and papers, journals and folders
- finding notes on the backs of receipts and envelopes, bits of torn paper stuck in with bill payments, bank statements and grocery lists because I didn’t have any of those fancy-schmancy supplies when I needed them
- seeing real life and fiction intersect on a page
- the way thoughts can exist inside of other thoughts just like they do in your brain [nested there, mirroring the dynamic process of awareness (assuming there is always awareness but likely there are nested thoughts inside subconscious thoughts too -- trundling along without actual awareness) and inspiring even-more-convoluted thoughts]
- that other people do it too (which means I’ve got good stuff to read)
- thinking of the perfect word, feeling it fall into place
- meeting other people who think all these things are interesting too
- the order imposed by commas and periods, the strange — and seemingly changeable — rules of colons and semi-colons
- how, even on days when you sit down thinking you can’t possibly write (you’re distracted, tired, frustrated or angry, or you’ve gone through the entire list of emotions that Live Journal gives you to select from and you are the feeling that you get when you realize that you are not feeling ANY of those feelings), you just keep the pen moving and something like this list forms anyway