Jan Morrison

changing how I do things is something that comes pretty easily to me. I thrive on change and like the puzzle of how I can get myself to do what I want to do. So my main New Year Solution was to do two out of the same three things a day. I've used that device for many years now - it works. My rebel child doesn't feel too hemmed in and my Persnickety child gets satisfied too. So, no need to change that. The three things have been somewhat the same for years too. They are Write, Meditate, Walk. They make me feel good when I keep at it and after a small while in any of these disciplines I hunger to do them so...the problem? It is with the writing arm. I shared my dilemnas a few posts ago - lots of works in progress, monkey mind about getting on with one of them, etc... The thing is, since I did the month of writing madness that is NaNoWriMo - I don't want to add MORE words to my mystery. It is a freaking mess of words now. So while sitting, when I was supposed to be labelling my thoughts and going back to my breath, I had a thought! My new writing part of the trio is that I will work on my writing for two hours or do one thousand words. Seems simple enough doesn't it? The thing is, even a freedom fighter like myself can get caught up in 'shoulds' and 'have tos'. Stephen King told me to write a thousand words a day so I thought that was what I have to do. I wrote way more than that in November and now I need to not write - I need to sort, organize, figure out the structure, the fictive dream has to not jar the reader into wakefulness when she reads something in the wrong place or clearly impossible.
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