Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS writer.
Most days are very similar around here, getting up when the first of the maggots wakes up and demands attention…making breakfast/lunch/dinner, entertaining the brood, changing nappies, keeping the entropy in check, eventually going to bed and repeating it all again the next day. Yesterday was different, yesterday I went to Catherine Deveny’s Gunnas Writing Masterclass.
I write, obviously, you are reading my writing now but blogging comes relatively easy to me. It’s mostly ranting anyway or just some pictures thrown together and for some reason I rarely encounter any difficulties pressing the “publish” button. Ok, I sometimes encounter the problem of over-thinking and over-editing what I write and then need to force myself to let go and just throw the piece out there but this doesn’t happen too often. It happens when something is close to my heart. The more important a piece of writing is to me, the harder it becomes to finish and publish it. The longer I am editing, re-writing, polishing the words the harder it becomes to let go. There is one novel I’m working on and off for nearly 20 years now and it’s writing with my heart’s blood and I am at the point where I am petrified.
The lovely wife presented me with a gift voucher for the writing class for Christmas and I was really looking forward to go. I had no idea what was going to happen and I didn’t have any expectations other than “even if it’s completely useless I will spend a day in the company of people older than 4″, which is a rare thing for me anyway and needs to be treasured.