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In the Silence

It is here the thoughts came rushing back. Ideas and passion that I thought long forgotten came reminding me of before when my responsibilities weren’t as heavy and I could breathe a little easier as the stresses of adulthood and career had yet to hold me hostage.

I’m finally home, free from distraction, momentarily unrestrained from obligation.

Away from endless loops of hair tutorials and conspiracy theories. Here in the silence I am reminded why I stopped talking that summer.

This past weekend I did something that I hadn’t done since high school-sat in silence, no tv, no cell phone just my thoughts. The feeling was uncomfortable and much needed.

It is here that all senses are alive and that dead feeling, the nagging feeling of only existing fades. In the Silence I can hear the rain fall onto the drive way, I can finally taste the coconut milk in the lukewarm coffee.

In the Silence I find discomfort and yet I find a strange peace; I am re-discovering the Creative, the Dreamer and the Humanist has returned; pieces of me overshadowed by the Cynic, the Perfectionist and the Pessimist. I know now that I must deaden the noise and snuff out the blue light.

In this dreary hour and in the small room in this silence I have found ME.

Flash Fiction

Lights, Camera, Read.

It’s time to hit the stage for the Hoover Library’s Write Club’s annual Flash Fiction event, and it has come at a time when I need the extra boost of motivation to keep going with fresh material.

Although this isn’t my first Flash, it will be a first that I take the stage for the live event, and I am stoked!

However, small the occasion, I am not too quick to shy away from sharing and being around real authors and talented writers.

So, what I have been doing to get ready.

Well…absolutely nothing. I haven’t even solidified the read, but I am not totally unprepared. I have been writing exploring new ideas but I am attempting not to get too inside my head and overthink it. I do have a piece in the works and I posted the link to the first ~2,000 words (give or take a few) to my Vocal Media page a few posts back (Cure: Wellness Required, link icon below). l

As I type I am calm cool and collected; this may not be the case by this time next week!

The Plan

Write.

That’s the plan; write. It seems simple. What many don’t know is that I have a hard time taking my own advice and I have taken every avenue to avoid doing just that.

I am willing to admit impatience makes up the lion’s share of the blame. Throughout this journey to become a serious writer with hopes to become a full fledge author, I have wanted that New York Time’s best seller since yesterday, ten years ago.

The entitled millennial I want it now spirit reared it’s ugly head and for a time I considered quitting. My drafts were trash and I begin to question if I had it. I have yet to define the “it”.

The goal is to write more frequently and to simply take it easy on myself, and I have decided to take 2022 head on and carve out time to develop my skill. I begin even if the idea or the thought isn’t fully developed, the ideas are there. It is putting them on the screen that shows the disconnect.

I’ve discovered that chasing the perfect first draft has always been my Achilles’ heel. I have learned that it is okay; every idea or plot isn’t meant to be a trilogy or HBO series. You have to write in order to get the sludge out of the way and hit black gold-or rather the literary jackpot. I am learning the process takes time.

Trusting the process is hard but trusting myself is the hardest thing I have ever done.