Peanut Buttering

It's like riding a bike

It has been a while since I posted anything. I wonder if doing a yearly version of the "30 days of daily posting" that started this blog/website would be a good idea. Conveniently, it's November 1st, and November is (was?[1]) famously a month for organized writing.

As I write this, I notice that some strange force in my inner psyche is rebelling strongly against writing every day this month. I don't quite know why, but I guess maybe it's wrapped up in a bundle of insecurities I've been feeling off-and-on this year.

Yet as I write this, I also notice that I obviously should do this, even moreso because of this reluctance. Take the medicine, Logan!

Okay, okay.

I admittedly have had various topics come up that I wanted to post about, but never got around to (or perhaps deliberately and/or subconsciously cowered from) writing. It would be nice to get those on paper before I lose touch with the inciting ideas, or burst from the unrelieved pressure.

One goal for my future writing is to get more playful. I was really pleased with "Escape from dreamland" because the writing feels so much more fun and alive than the sterile prose I sometimes default to. Hopefully I can do more of that. Not that this post is a good example! But it's fine; I'm just greasing the gears here.

  1. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) used to take place in November, but it was apparently canceled earlier this year -- and I mean canceled in both the "shut down" and "scandalized" sense of the word. Should budding novelists now explicitly abstain from writing their novel in November, in protest of the previous organization? NaNoWriMo: National NO Writing Month! ↩︎