I am once again joining in with the Insecure Writer’s Support Group (#IWSG). This month, I’ve done a good amount of writing, but not nearly as much as I had wanted to. I have a lot of thoughts in my mind that I would want to put into words, but somehow, I can’t manage to sit quietly for long enough to actually go about writing those posts.
Anyway, the optional question for this month is whether your writing has ever taken you by surprise. Well, yes, but not in the ways the hosts think. I mean, I have only one published piece and, though the acceptance of the piece came unexpected, I wasn’t specifically not expecting it either. I had mostly not been thinking about it.
What I want to write about is the way my every blog post or other writing takes me by surprise. I rarely plan my writing in advance. I don’t have a blog planner. Maybe I should have one, as even right now, with two weeks’ notice of the following #IWSG day today, I sit here typing up a post that I don’t really know about where it’s headed. I mean, I could write the same old crap: that I’ve been meaning to write (more) poetry and fiction. In fact, a ton of ideas have been floating around in my mind, usually at night, but inbetween day activities and other obligations, I cannot find enough quiet time, like I said.
I am not even sure what direction I want my writing to take. Like, recently I’ve developed an intense interest in reading and book-related blogging. I have been spending a lot of my limited free time with my nose stuck in a book. I know, to be a good writer, you need to read a lot. I don’t mind. I just don’t know whether this will stick.
A Multitude of Musings 
Absolutely, when you write from the heart you often do get some surprises!
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Sometimes I think it is good to let your mind take you where it thinks you should go. Let out those lurking ideas. 🙂
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Ah, me too, Astrid!
[about being stuck in a book].
My current books are the Patrick White biography by David Marr and When the Mind Hears by Harlan Lane which is about the life of Laurent Clerc in France and the USA – he is a great Deaf advocate.
As well as good reading – you need movement in your life – I do lots of writing in my head precisely because I can’t / find very difficult sitting still.
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When I was working on a novel, I was always surprised and delighted that the characters just took over! Spooky in a good way 🙂
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That is wonderful when you can trust characters to do that.
“It is only when a story tells itself that it is worth much” – Elinor Brent-Dyer – JO OF THE CHALET SCHOOL [1926].
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Great quote!!
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well for what its worth, I like your blog just how it is, so dont change it, the way you write is real and honest, I like that, and I cant be the only one who does. xoxo
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Thanks so much for saying that. I don’t intend on changing my blog.
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