Here we go, starting again. After the holiday, I need to pick up my novel revision and get going again. But, I’ve lost momentum.
It’s a problem: life seems to interfere with the making of art.
So, what else is new? When I teach freshman composition, I tell the students that my class is easy, it’s life that is hard. Their job is to live a full life and still finish assignments on time and with their best effort. In the midst of colds or flus, pregnancies and car wrecks, funerals of their grandmother or their best friend. Life doesn’t stop just because they become students–or because we choose to write stories.
In fact, Art and Fear says that when people stop writing (or making art of any kind) the problem isn’t they stop; it’s that they don’t start again. Starting again is a constant in our creative life.
So, here we go, starting again.
I’m going to read through the revised chapters and make any changes necessary, but mostly read to get back into the story and thinking about what else needs work. I’m starting again this morning.
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