Now that Ethan is in school, I have time to do things I've wanted to do, but haven't had the opportunity as a full time mom. I enrolled in a writing course and the first class was this morning. I have had both writer's & readers block for weeks now. Every blog entry has been forced and uninspired because I need to try to write every day, but what do you say when you have nothing to say?
My class was fantastic. It was inspiring. We had a free writing session at the end of the class. The teacher gave us a sentence to write at the top of the page, set a timer for 5 minutes and we had to just write what ever that sentence made us write. I was worried that I'd sit there, pen in hand with nothing to say, but I found just putting the pen to paper was inspiring enough. I started thinking I'd go in one direction and ended up somewhere else entirely. I just did it. I didn't over think it - I just wrote. The end result was writing about a red maple tree that was in my front yard in the house I grew up in. A tree that holds significance I didn't know it had. I'll write about that tree later. Maybe I'll even post what I come up with, but the point is I wrote. I didn't write about something mundane, I wrote with inspiration and emotion that I haven't been able to find in weeks!
My class was fantastic. It was inspiring. We had a free writing session at the end of the class. The teacher gave us a sentence to write at the top of the page, set a timer for 5 minutes and we had to just write what ever that sentence made us write. I was worried that I'd sit there, pen in hand with nothing to say, but I found just putting the pen to paper was inspiring enough. I started thinking I'd go in one direction and ended up somewhere else entirely. I just did it. I didn't over think it - I just wrote. The end result was writing about a red maple tree that was in my front yard in the house I grew up in. A tree that holds significance I didn't know it had. I'll write about that tree later. Maybe I'll even post what I come up with, but the point is I wrote. I didn't write about something mundane, I wrote with inspiration and emotion that I haven't been able to find in weeks!
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