You may be wondering what in the
world that picture is of. Short answer is a tote full of notebooks. Long answer
is this is a tomb for lost stories. Does anyone else have their own version of
this? A place where your ideas, thoughts, and characters go to rest in peace?
Please tell me I’m not the only one! *Sigh* I take it from the deafening
silence I may well be…or maybe the silence is because this is a computer screen
and not an audience. Hmmmm, anyway.
See? That’s the problem right there.
You get going on one thought, then bam! Another thought makes its way in your
head. Then that thought takes over the next one until the next thought comes
along to replace that thought, so on and so on. Ugh! There I go again. Another
idea totally derailed and off in the ditch. Okay, now to get on track. Let me
say a few words for the dearly departed. Ahem. Heads bowed in silence please.
To the stories left behind, the ones
started and put away before their lives were done, to you I say I'm sorry. It
wasn't you're fault. I blame my scatterbrain on that. It comes and goes, sticks
and unsticks from many things before finally starting to settle on one thing.
Perhaps I will come back you. Okay I will come back to you...someday.
To the ideas thought up in the
midnight hour. Wow, I look back at you and *phew* many of you are so out of the
box they seem like a Seuss/ H.G. Wells child threw up an imagination rainbow.
And then some you...wow...you are so far out of the box that I can't imagined
where I would go with you. Does that mean I don't want to try? Of course not,
but will it be worth my time? Of course not. I'm barely making it through the
stories I do have a grasp on. You're wackiness is much appreciated and keeps me
pressing on to create new things.
To those first drafts. We had a
great run, didn't we? Some of you were actually finished. It was nerves, my
silly and terrible nerves, that kept you from becoming more. All I had to do
was push through on some edits and boom you would have been something. But I'm
still dealing with those demons, but believe me when I say I will come back to
you.
To the dumb ideas, you know who you
are. Maybe it's better you stay in there. Nobody needs to know about...wow that
idea was dumb. Moving on!!
To the random murmurs, I love and
miss you the most. Looking back on you I can picture where I was when I wrote
you, what mood, what time of day, heck some of you I can tell what I was eating
as the remnants of those meals are on you. LOL
The point I'm trying to make is you
make me who I am. Each failure, almost success, each try, and stop defines me.
I am scatterbrained. I am a little unfocused. I am an imaginative. I am a
writer. And for that I am eternally grateful for you. I will come back to you
one day.
Amen.
Okay, you can
raise your heads now. Oh and say a little pray for your own lost tales. Tell them
you’ll be back for them. J
