A Small Measure of Success

 

     As I have mentioned in my "About" page, I began this blog nearly a month ago for the purpose of getting back into writing.  I am very happy to say that this blog, coupled with the toddler I nanny, have definitely helped me get my mojo back!  The proof is in the fact that I was up until 4am last night because I had too many ideas that I had to get onto paper/hard drive before I lost them.  This is the first time in way too long that this has happened.  This used to be nearly every night of the week: I spent many nights in high school working on my stories by the dim, dim light of the alarm clock so my parents wouldn't know I was still awake.  I have spent much of the last few years taking things in, researching completely random stuff, but now things are finally coming out.  I'm not going to say that I'm working on the great American novel, because that's a bit of a stretch.  The important thing is that I'm doing something, and that the previously stagnant creative juices are beginning to flow again.  (Maybe that's not fair-- they were never 100% stagnant; they were just way stagnant in comparison to what they were like before.)  I think by this point, I've told myself the following enough times to allow me to just write and publish something without worrying about its quality: Twilight got published.  Real people actually bought and read that.  Dada poetry was also published, and I can write better stuff than that in my sleep.  Whether or not that's saying much, it is something.  You gotta start somewhere.