When I got my wake up call few weeks ago I slipped into a state of pure happiness. I decided that I need a break from all the writing so I could figure out what I really want to do. What are the projects I want to work on to? Or even, maybe, I should give it a break for a year or so...
But what should I do? It was fun to just be happy for few days. Nevertheless to say I soon grew bored. I started running again. Pushed myself over 6 km last Monday felt like a superstar. Kept running.
Got bored. Then on Wednesday a particularly bad day, where I started to feel rather depressed I started reading and thinking about life. Around midnight I remembered about one of my ideas on a possible novel. Eager to read what I have wrote I found some little pieces I made for it.
For my surprise it was quite good... Hm mm
And then it happened- piece by piece the idea came back to me, with more puzzle pieces I could scribble down. I suddenly saw my main characters. I kind a knew how I want them to be. And a year or two ago, idea, all it was. Now there is a story in my brain about finding yourself. A theme that is quite dear to me. Excited I started to make profiles of the main characters.
Today, something else is happening. I feel like writer. It is a desire that as I now understand I cannot take a break. Days just seem to be too easy without late nights, good books and lack of sleep. On my first help course for my driver's licence I realized that I need to be around people, I have to hear their stories, I have to tell them, I need to be connected.
I started to work on my piece for my freelance journalism course about negative sexual experience. I decided to re- read Gail Caldwell's "Let's Take the Long Way Home"! Everyone who knows what is a real friendship will read this in a breath take.
Do you feel like a writer? What makes you feel like a writer?
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