Self-reminder

Sometimes I just wonder what those things are all about. But then I remember, if it doesn’t make sense, that’s because it came from my mind, so that’s okay. It’s not that I never make sense of the things I say (write), though sometimes it sure as hell feels like that. Sometimes I just have to keep on going on, who knows what kind of sense it can end up having? Like right now. The first sentence made absolutely no sense when I started writing it, but I just had to keep on writing and wait until it started to take form and make some kind of sense (-ish).
That’s how it feels to start writing something. At first it may be just a rant, something with no meaning at all. But if you keep on writing, there will come a moment when you’ll stop, read and realize that it does have a meaning. It does make sense.
Of course it doesn’t work all the time. I still have a lot of documents in my computer that I started writing in just for the hang of it, and had to stop because there was nothing there that made me want to continue.
I’m not saying that as a bad thing. It is good to just open a blank document and start typing away. You don’t need to think about what to write, just let your fingertips do all the work. Type away whatever comes to mind without worrying about sense, reason, coherence (though I may want to say cohesion – I never really know how to differentiate them).
Sometimes that’s how I start a story. With no previous thought about it. I just open the document, start typing, and when I realize there’s an idea there that may turn into something good. Though that doesn’t mean that every one of these ideas will really turn into stories, it’s still good to know that sometimes, even if it is just in the beginning, the story really come to us.
It’s also good to have those documents when you want (are itching) to write, but when you open the story you’re currently writing (working in), nothing comes. You can’t seem to keep going on with the scene you stopped at. So you open one of the other ones (the good ideas) and give it a try. Do that just to alleviate your mind. After a while, go back to your real work in progress, and try again.

Change!

I needed one. I was really bored, and thought that maybe if I started changing little things, than I would feel better. I hope it works. As you can see, I changed the colors and design here a bit (if you’ve ever came around here you may notice it, if you haven’t than never mind it), thinking that, maybe, it would get me a bit more inspired to blog about something, even if this something was the little change I was making here. Well, it did work, here I am, writing to blog.
And again, if you’ve ever been around here you will notice (or not, I know most people doesn’t) that there’s no counter anymore. That is mostly because it doesn’t matter if I write anything here or not, I always feel like I’m the only one visiting this blog (I can swear that, from the 128 visitors it had up until an hour ago, at least 100 were just me checking if the post had come out the way I wanted it to be, and that’s because my counter was cheap like that… I’m cheap like that… sometimes). So, I’m done with counting visits, it just makes me feel bad thinking that no one reads what I write. From now on, I won’t care about it anymore.
Also, there’s two new links here on the right side, beneath the labels and archive, mostly the labels. One of them, Wordplay, is K. M. Weiland’s blog. If you’re a writer - aspiring or not - if you want some pointers as to what path you should be taking, how to develop your ideas, how to start writing your book; summarizing, anything related to the whole process of writing, revising and editing your work, go there and pay her a visit. She’s just awesome!
The other link, {Courage 2 Create}, is Ollin Morales’s blog. He mostly rants about the downs and up of the whole process of writing and how life always seems to be throwing things his way to bring him down. Things, I’m sure, happen to all of us. If you’re a writer, having some problems writing, go there and read a few of his old posts, you might find out that he’s already been where you are and you can read how he managed the situation (may give you ideas to deal with what you’ve been going through right now). Of course, he also gives some advices on the process of writing. It’s really worth it!
Now, things I found out that are helping a lot on this little change I decided to make. The first one, how it all started, is Ollin’s blog (already gave you the heads up on that). The second is new music. Weezer may not be a new band, but it is new to me, and I’m right now enjoying it a bit while my mind winds down (this one I found out on Ollin’s blog). And there’s also The Frames, also enjoying it while relaxing (this one I just heard at the end of episode 13 of Castle’s 3rd season).
I don’t know where exactly I’m going with this, but if it helps a bit on the creative process it is worth it.
Feel like you need some change? Go for it!