It would be more fruitful for creativity, I think, if I attempted to loosely organize this blog around a common aim. Of course, the first aim is to get me writing. But, I don't want the thing to turn into incessant ramblings about my own day-to-day going-ons.
No, I've found that I've yet been able to synthesize my own life experience into good writing. I need to learn the basics as seperated from myself before I can inject myself into the writing. I need distance. That is, I need to write about things I'm not biased about, don't have a personal, vested interest in. For the time being, that is.
So, how does a guy refrain from constantly writing about himself? Give him an assignment.
An assignment for the entirity of a blog--which may run for half of a month or for a of couple years--is difficult to do, I think. So, I've decided I'll do weekly(ish) assignments. One week will have a common theme on which I write, simply to try and distance myself from the creative subject matter. Force myself to not talk about me so fricken much. Slaying of the self, George MacDonald called it.
We'll see if this works. Or lasts.
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