Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER
So nice to put pen to paper. I’ve tried the alternative forms of voice recording, typing on the laptop, thinking it was the most expedient way to do it but there’s nothing like the physicality of writing.I like the link between the mind and creating the words before me. I enjoyed the quote that came across my desk the other day that in the future cursive writing will be seen as a form of code. Interesting how in recent years how important the actual act of writing cursive has become for me. So here I am in Daylesford at this workshop with Catherine Deveney and so enjoying it. Interesting how she runs it with introductions being such an opportunity to roll information along making individual suggestions to all participants having a whole range of different expectations.
But finally….. is it? How can I say finally? My life is a book without a defined ending perhaps that’s the problem. Maybe I need to die to be able to finalise the story? FFS! Why can’t I just have a finality to a chapter in my life? Originally I thought my story I would be linear, then I thought I could chop and change it dispersing different events along the linear story. Maybe my life is just made up in chapters? I’m not really sure. More introspection. This exercise with the prompts is good. Like the art class I took the other night I need to have more discipline and commitment to what I want to achieve. Prioritising. Appreciated Catherines advice on not taking on not getting feedback / other opinions whereas I’d been told in the past to seek out feedback throughout the process. That never really sat well with me. I guess what I need to take on board from this there is no right way. Just do it don’t worry about what other people think.
Don’t procrastinate.