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Some people feel satisfied if they can get a hand of cards in at some point during the day. Or, if they’ve got a book, they can pick up at the end of the day to get another chapter read.
I like to write. For me, today is Sunday. I’m also trying to pick up my good writerly habits again. I had to put it all on hold for a bit while I did some number crunching for our tax lady. That is a task I never look forward to, and I managed this year to draw it out into a long seasonal depression. Now, that can never be a good thing, and for my writing output, it was a death knell. The only bright thing that came of it was that I might have learned a good lesson. I am bouncing back quickly, so perhaps there is that. The other thing is, I promised not to allow it all to pile up again. I’ll see how that goes.
In any case, I’m writing again. I’m back
to writing something, just a couple of inches worth in my Do Good File. It’s a
morning place where I pick something optimistic to talk about. Sometimes, those
thoughts morph into a longer piece that I can publish somewhere.
Today, though, I just want to talk about
how important it is that you allow yourself to write, no matter if all you can
do is say a bad word over and over again. The better idea would be to perhaps
pick ten optimistic words and write about one of them.
Okay, I’ll do that with you today: Hope.
Happiness. Graciousness. Learning. Cookies. How is cookies optimistic, you
might say. Well, it’s something nice to look forward to. Okay, some more
optimistic words. Pretty music. The Sun. Beautiful day. Prayer. Rest.
I think that’s enough to start with. So,
this is the exercise. You write down some optimistic words, and from that list,
you write about one of the words. I just thought of something. What if it were
a timed exercise? Just 20 minutes. That’s what Mrs. Brown had us do in the
fifth grade. Every day, she pinned up a new magazine picture and had the class
write about it for 20 minutes. I wonder if that’s when I became a writer. In the fifth grade
at eleven years old.
I’m picking the first word on the list:
Hope.
Hope is necessary for living a good
life. If you were a gardener, you would hope that whatever you are planting will
grow. All of this is going to be dependent on the weather, on the amount of
water the crop gets, and on whatever bugs come and go. The only thing that you
can be certain of is your water if you aren’t living in a drought-prone area
and can afford the water. I suppose you could pray for good weather, but I’m
not sure that’s ever worked very well.
I wonder if getting through all those
variables, you have to have faith. Maybe that’s the trick. Or perhaps you could
plant some marigolds nearby to handle some of the insects, or buy a bunch of
ladybugs to set free in your yard. I just looked on Google, and they said 1,500
ladybugs could cost $9 to $15 and be enough for an average-sized lawn. We have
a second-story apartment and have a small porch in front, so I’d share some
with our downstairs neighbors, who both have small back yards. It would likely
help the neighborhood, for that matter.
So, that might be the life of a
gardener. The life of a writer is full of words for stories and for articles.
If you have enough of them, you could write books or a movie script.
Personally, I write motivational stuff. It’s not intended for any particular
audience, just the ones who need a boost.
I figure a writer should write something
every day. It’s not always going to be worthy of publication, but who knows,
the piece you wrote that was sort of half-assed might, in two days, turn out to
be something better.
It’s a habit that needs tending to.
Every day. Thanks for reading. I welcome comments.
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