WRITING: Stage VIII – A Final Analysis

I’m doing this analysis because I said I would, but truly, this has been a personal journey and I don’t intend to hide that fact nor attempt to pass it off as necessary to a literary journal. I almost feel guilty offering a dry analysis of the emotional trip of the past couple of days, but maybe because it will just put the finishing touches to the understanding of it, I will do so now. Not a particularly engrossing or exciting adventure thriller, but here it is:

This “series” of stages is a linear narrative of a writer’s internal conflicts stemming from a sudden feeling of inability to write creatively and her efforts to both research the problem and to decide a path to continue her future. Besides the internal conflict within the “protagonist” there is a parallel conflict between technology, the weblog seen perhaps as the antagonist, and its effect on the thought processes in the writing formats—the flowing ease of weblogging and the tendency it has to bring more of the personal life of the author into her writings. The writer sees the problem and looks to the weblog as not only a thief of time, but as a thief of creative or fictional manner of thinking. The story arc reaches a climax when a decision must be made as to whether the one form of writing destroys the other. Reality and journalism seem to be the focus, but in delving deeper, one often discovers that the manner in which one writes, not simply what is written, is the creative process. Even the process of designing the website is discovered to be creativity at work. Organization, methodology, discipline, crystallization of ideas and choice of words and use of language—are all necessary parts of fiction and are all clearly being practiced in producing weblog posts. Personal thoughts or feelings about everyday events are practice in writing about them in yet another new way.

From a literary point of view, this short story of a small part of my own life has been written as best as I can describe it as it happened. The conflicts are there, the drama is there, and thankfully, realization of self and direction through research and feedback has produced a decision, a plan, a resolution.