Day Two
Hundred and Nine: Philosophy
I had this
dream the other night, and I started writing.
I started writing the things that I’ve wanted to and they have finally
all fit together, and I now truly believe that dreams are just what our
subconscious, our selves need to get out but can’t so they trick us while we’re
sleeping. Even the nightmares sometimes
are useful when it comes to really thinking about things, and the other night
when I dreamt about what I was supposed to write it just felt right. It felt like it needed to happen, and all of
my geekiness and quirkiness just camee together in one giant leap of
creativity. I just need to get it down.
Oh the
times they are a-changin’,
My goal for
the time I have off in August is to read, write, and og out and do as much
until the term starts. I know that I
need tow rite this all down, and it might just be rough notes until my
playwrighting course this fall but something’s telling me that it isn’t. Sometimes when I get little hints like this
they click until I put them all together
in one, and something’s telling me there’s an inkling somewhere that just says
this needs to be held off, it needs to stew, the characters need to move around
a little more in the cocoons they have in my brain until they can come walking
out for me, until they can say the things they need to say.
Writing is
not as abstract as it sounds for me, but I do take time to perculate. If you know anything of my essay writing
style I usually write one draft and delete the whole thing and rewrite a day or
two later, and that’s just because usually my thoughts don’t go down as easily as
I’d like. That’s the same with my
creative writing really, for plays anyway, and that’s how I tend to enjoy
writing the best. I love re-reading what
I’ve written in order to truly get a voice down, and when it comes out smoothly
I pat myself on the back, way to go inner mind cabinets, and that’s something
that won’t make sense to anyone (unless you’ve read Dreamcatcher by Stephen
King which I’m ventring you haven’t, so, sorry about that).
As for me I’m
more of a one-hit kind of girl. If I’m
going to write something creative I’m going to sit down ony once or twice for a
very long period of time and write it all down at once, or the idea’s just don’t
fit together. That’s the same for my
essay writing, I can’t break up the time I work on it its just not how my
thoughts go together. And so when I do
these blogs and posts and series I usually write them all at once because they
don’t usually sit cohesively if they aren’t all written in one shot.
My advice
for writers? Find what’s best for
you. You can’t learn from a book how to
write, the only good way to learn is to read as much as possible and to
practise. Write everyday, write poetry,
write songs and write smiling. Write in
the rain and write upside down do what you gotta do to get it all out, sometimes
I think I’d be a good dramaturg, a good person to pull the words out of people,
and sometimes I wish I could pull more out of myself.
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