WRITING: Stage VII – Resolution

Wish I could say I’d planned this, but I must admit that the coincidence occurred to me rather than the idea being created by me: The timing of this confrontation with myself over writing could not have been better planned. While I hope to briefly summarize what happened—the story, so to speak—and end it here with a resolution in proper story etiquette (!) I think that after bringing the problem out in the open and reading the thoughts of other writers, another resolution was being considered as well. I fear that many of us were on the brink of making one of our New Year’s Resolutions not to spend as much time blogging—writing or reading them.

I think this is a personal decision for each of us, and for myself, while I may limit myself as to the constant accessing and settle upon certain early morning and evening hours with a couple quick mid-day checks, I don’t see the necessity of a severe cutback. I have really come to the conclusion that I AM writing, and that it is creative writing. I believe that for me, it has helped tremendously to write daily and to read the well-written journals of others in my own growth as a writer.

Thanks are due you for sharing, an apology to Edgar for calling him names, and perhaps a critique of the story line that developed from a personal experience may be the last stage in this series—due the professor who not only encouraged the path to writing, but to attempt to overwhelm him with the possibility that I may have not only learned something from his methods of delving into literature, but can apply it as well.

So that will be the final posting—the analysis of the storyline that somehow involved us all, and hate to say it, but may come up again as we ride between the highs and the lows of being writers.